From: Dmitry Borodaenko <d.borodaenko@...>
Date: 2003-10-09T20:58:19+09:00
Subject: Re: TUI library

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:12:11PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
> >But now I'm facing the development of an TUI (Text User Interface)
> >based application. So, I'd like to know which library you recommend
> >to me to build the user interface (not ncurses directly but CDK or
> >something similar - there's no CDK binding for Ruby).
> I suppose there was a CTK binding but I can't find it atm.. anyway you
> could look at
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=jttui

Last update: 2002-05-14 09:59:48 GMT

I maintained this package in Debian for a while, but it needs a lot of
work on API, and it uses its own hacked curses implementation, and it
isn't worked on by original author, so I orphaned it. I would advise
against using it.

> and
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=ruby-newt

Last update: 2002-01-07 11:17:04 GMT

Never used this one, but it appears to be even more outdated than JTTui,
and isn't even listed on author's home page.

I would say, state of TUIs for Ruby is rather poor. Anyone tried to tie
up Ruby GNOME2 with text-mode Gtk?

-- 
Dmitry Borodaenko