From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-12-03T04:09:04+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRIDE Status

Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:40:01AM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I was wondering what was the story with FreeRIDE?  About a
> month ago there
> > > was a lot of talk about it, but I haven't heard much since.  Is there
> > > somewhere I can download it, or has it still not been released?
> > > If not, is
> > > there a timeframe for its (unofficial, of course :) release date?
> > >
> > > Anxiously looking forward to it (and very much appreciatively),
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > Thanks for your interest (and your patience!). I'm going to
> cross-post this
> > to the ruby ML to help keep everyone informed.
> >
> > We haven't yet made an official release. We've been fixing a few
> > show-stopper problems, cleaning up the code, and writing
> documentation. Work
> > and family always seem to take priority, as well, so it has been taking
> > longer that we wanted. Our updated release task list is at:
> >
> > 	http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Release_0.5.0_Tasks
>
> Some time ago I tried to run FreeRIDE but, being on a Debian GNU/Linux
> Sid box, I didn't have FXScintilla nor FXRuby installed.
> I worked my way to make the pertinent packages, to avoid cluttering up my
> /usr/local (yes, I do know stow :)
>
> I've seen on the TODO list that you're planning to make Debian
> packages, so this might interest you.
>
> Right now I have the following working in my sid box (haven't tested it
> thoroughly yet, but the packaging is quite simple indeed):
>  libfox-ruby
>  libfox-ruby1.7		(for the 1.7 branch, can coexist
> with the latter)
>  libfxscintilla1
>  libfxscintilla1-dev	(headers and static lib)
>
> Is this of any use for you?

Laurent is our guy that would be (or is) working on this, so I don't know
myself. I'll let Laurent answer you, but either way thanks for the offer.

Curt