From: sera@... (Francis Hwang)
Date: 2004-03-19T03:04:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mozilla

Maybe this is a tangent, but: I don't have a strong opinion about what
to use for a cross-platform GUI toolkit, but I do remember at RubyConf
last year that David Black was talking about setting up a non-profit
for Ruby stuff. I don't know anything about the progress of that--I
work at a non-profit and can tell you that sometimes it involves a
_lot_ of paperwork--but I can say one of the great things about having
a non-profit to administer things such as funding Moz-Ruby integration
is that donations to such a non-profit are tax-deductible.

On the other hand, such a structure might prove to be more cumbersome
than it's worth ...

F.

ser@germane-software.com (Sean Russell) wrote in message news:<83173408.0403171804.71ee68b6@posting.google.com>...
> I've been considering, for a while now, starting a "reward" fund to
> have someone code up a patch for the Mozilla codebase that would allow
> Mozilla to use Ruby as a scripting language.  There's been some
> half-hearted talk about this in the past, but I'm not a C developer
> (anymore) and while I don't have time to work on any such project, I'd
> be happy to contribute some dollars to someone who was willing.
> 
> Are there any like-minded folk out there?  I'm just making noises at
> the moment, and trying to see what people think about this.
> 
> One idea that's been flitting about my head has been that Mozilla is a
> XUL engine, making it a full-fledged GUI toolkit in itself.  If Ruby
> code were executable within Mozilla, we'd instantly have a GUI toolkit
> that ranks up among the top two or three ubiquitous cross-platform
> toolkits in the world.
> 
> In the long run, there'd be some sandboxing issues to consider, but
> it'd be interesting to see where this could go.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> --- SER