From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2004-03-01T05:30:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-gtk ?

Jeremy Henty wrote:

>In article <403E3E5C.9030604@earthlink.net>, Charles Hixson wrote:
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>>SourceForge lists that [ruby-gnome2] as being "pre-Alpha", and
>>experiments seem to bear that out.
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>Can you be more specific?  I have been using ruby-gnome through
>several versions and my experience is that it is admirably reliable
>and robust.
>
>Regards, 
>
>Jeremy Henty 
>
Not much more specific, but I'll try.
It was one of the tutorial examples, and I was testing it about a month 
ago.  The example bombed nearly immediately on a require statement.  I 
seem to remember that the missing file was gnome-calendar or 
gnome-canvas, something like that.  I was using Ruby 1.8.1-pre 4 (or 
something like that).  Most of the system seemed stable, and I'd finally 
gotten bsddb to work properly, so I wanted to try a graphic interface, 
so I downloaded ruby-gnome2 all & ruby-gtk2 (not quite sure of the 
names, but that's about right).  They compiled without hitch, so I 
started working through the tutorial.  But I didn't get very far.  Well, 
the files were listed as either alpha or pre-alpha, so I wasn't 
surprised, and the problem was gross enough that I presumed that it 
didn't need reporting.  (I had previously gotten a routine similar to 
that to work--so I figured it was just a temporary retrogression.)

But it did seem to confirm that the project was alpha.