From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2003-01-13T18:27:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Fox

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
>> Could someone explain to me why Ruby is adopting Fox as its standard GUI?
> 
> 
> If Ruby is adopting FOX as its standard GUI, that's news to me. The only 
> GUI one might point to as the "standard" for Ruby is Tk, since the 
> Ruby/Tk extension is part of the standard Ruby source distribution.

Additionally Tk runs virtually anywhere. Windows, Linux, Mac OSX (under 
X) and on those Pocket PCs whith Linux on them. It might be a pig but it 
is at least a portable pig.

When a better GUI toolkit (which is virually anything lets be honest) is 
part of the standard Ruby distribution on all platforms the way Tk is 
then I'll look into using it. Until then however...