From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-12-19T05:34:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7599] Re: GUIs for Rubies

Hugh Stasse writes:

# We seem to be discussing which GUI to tie ruby into, to ensure the
# widest support.  But we don't know how things are going to change in
# the future, and such change may not be far away, in this field.
# Should we not be providing an abstraction to which any GUI can be
# attached?  I see such an abstraction as a superset of facilities, in
# which some facilities for the less capable GUIs will be emulated by
# groups of components, rather than single components.
# 
# If we have a GUI abstraction, we could detect what libraries exist
# at build time, and couple those into the system, or ask if the
# person wants to install others.

IIRC, this was considered by Perl folks, and maybe also by Python folks 
too. I don't recall what the alleged showstoppers were, however. I think 
the main problem (to poorly express it) was one of much greater variation 
in semi-incommensurate details for differing GUI systems, as compared to 
different DB systems.

You might have better luck getting relevant information on this issue from 
comp.lang.perl.misc, comp.lang.perl.tk, comp.lang.python, 
comp.lang,eiffel, and so on.

Conrad Schneiker
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