From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-05-06T07:50:02+09:00
Subject: Re: A wishlist for a "Ruby Standard Library"

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 07:39:54AM +0900, Aredridel wrote:
> A wishlsit for a "Ruby Standard Library":

Perhaps ruby-sumo is a starting point? It's in the RAA. Doesn't look like
it's been updated for a few months though.

> * REXML 
Included

> * Ruby-Mysql
Included (actually it's mysql-ruby)

> * Ruby-Postgres
Included

> * DBI
Included

> * A graphics manipulation library
> * A vector manipulation library? Something for both maths folk and
>   graphics folk?
I don't know what those would be

> * an efficient and modular HTML (and XML?) output toolkit
Included (Amrita and eruby)

> * A GUI toolkit, or at least a standard abstract interface to it/them
>     * FXRuby?
>     * Ruby-GTK?
>     * Ruby-GNOME?
>     * RIGS?
>     * Something glade-based for abstract?
Missing, but then I don't know if Ruby has any good cross-platform GUI
toolkit, or any abstraction layer which sits on top of them all. To be
useful as a 'standard' component it ought to work on at least Windows, X and
OSX. DOS would be a bonus :-)

Regards,

Brian.