From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T22:53:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of wxRuby?


On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 08:13  AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:

> Robert Feldt wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Curt Hibbs wrote:
>>
>>>> My summary from memory:
>>>>
>>>>     - The FreeRIDE folks started a port but it is way too raw to
>>>>       release.
>>>>     - The FreeRIDE folks aren't working on it, may in the future but
>>>>       don't hold breath.
>>>>     - Others are welcome to pick it up.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You mostly got it right.
>>>
>>> I plan to get back to wxRuby as soon as I can pick up a little extra
>>> bandwidth -- FreeRIDE, family, moving, and job-hunting have me 
>>> currently
>>> snowed under. If FXRuby were to shortly pick a few missing key 
>>> parts, I
>>> might consider passing the reigns to someone else so that I can
>> devote more
>>> time to FreeRIDE. Barring that I'll be back on wxRuby in a few weeks.
>>>
>> I'd be interested in knowing what the "few missing key parts" of 
>> FXRuby
>> consists of, and how wxWindows solves/overcomes them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robert Feldt
>
> I *was* internationalization and Mac support, but now we've got 
> FreeRIDE
> running on the Mac under FXRuby (available in the upcoming release 
> Candidate
> #2). So the only real issue left is I18N.
>
> Curt
>

Also the issue of native look-n-feel (LNF) is a big deal to many.  For 
many applications it is important to have a platform native LNF and 
WxWindows gives you that.  To me that's not as big a deal for an IDE, 
but other apps may have issues.  i18n is the bigger issue for us.

-rich