I''ve been looking in on WxRuby occasionally to see if it''s ready foruse, because I like some of the precepts, esp. native widgets.Finally I decided to ask. How close is it to being easily installable on the three majorplatforms? deb or rpm on linux, binary installers on windows and osx.It has to be that easy for people to want to distribute applicationsto end users that use this toolkit. How usable is 0.6.0? As in would you recommend it for "production"use? And/or when will wxruby2 be declared stable? When wxruby2 doesarrive, will code written for 0.6.0 just work for the most part? These are things that I may be able to help with if they''re within reach.
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 08:41 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote:> How usable is 0.6.0? As in would you recommend it for "production"use?I would not recommend it for production use. It works reasonably well for small personal tools, and for playing around.> And/or when will wxruby2 be declared stable?"Any day now...or maybe not for several months". None of us are paid to work on it, so we go through phases of dedicating lots of time, and phases of doing very little. The predictable result is erratic progress and no ability for us to predict schedules in advance. I wish I could spend more time on it.> When wxruby2 doesarrive, will code written for 0.6.0 just work for the most part?Yes. There will be a few tweaks, but otherwise wxruby 0.6.0 code should work fine under wxruby2.> How close is it to being easily installable on the three major platforms? > deb or rpm on linux, binary installers on windows and osx. > It has to be that easy for people to want to distribute applications > to end users that use this toolkit.That is definitely our goal. First (and hopefully soon), we would have binary zips/tarballs for each of the three platforms. After that, we will probably create gems. Beyond that, we would probably encourage people to create rpms, debs, emerge scripts, and other OS-specific install packages.> These are things that I may be able to help with if they''re within reach.That would be great. The structure of wxruby2 is unlikely to change, so if you want to experiment with creating packages for it, please do so. Thanks, Kevin
Hi Hans Fugal wrote:> I''ve been looking in on WxRuby occasionally to see if it''s ready foruse, because I like some of the precepts, esp. native widgets.Finally I decided to ask. > How close is it to being easily installable on the three majorplatforms?0.6.0: installer on windows, standard .tar.gz compile on linux/os x wxruby2: no binaries available, but will be available for the upcoming preview release> deb or rpm on linux, binary installers on windows and osx.It has to be that easy for people to want to distribute applicationsto end users that use this toolkit. >You can use rubyscript2exe to bundle the wxruby binary as part of a standalone executable. This works on any platform.> How usable is 0.6.0? As in would you recommend it for "production"use?It doesn''t implement the full WxWidgets API, but it''s definitely stable enough for production use. Eg. Weft QDA: http://www.pressure.to/qda/> And/or when will wxruby2 be declared stable?It''s some way from stable. An alpha release is coming pretty soon.> When wxruby2 doesarrive, will code written for 0.6.0 just work for the most par >Yes. Code is pretty much completely portable between the two at the moment.> These are things that I may be able to help with if they''re within reach. >We''re pretty close to an alpha release. Compiling CVS HEAD and trying out a few of the samples is a good way to get started and see some wxruby code. cheers alex> _______________________________________________ > wxruby-users mailing list > wxruby-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wxruby-users > > >
Hi Alex, Alex Fenton wrote:>We''re pretty close to an alpha release. Compiling CVS HEAD and trying >out a few of the samples is a good way to get started and see some >wxruby code. > >I would love to try this ... compiling the CVS head on Windows (using MSVC++ 6.0) that is. Are there any special instructions I need to follow? Thanks, -- Shashank
On 5/13/06, Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to> wrote:> > How close is it to being easily installable on the three majorplatforms? > 0.6.0: installer on windows, standard .tar.gz compile on linux/os x> wxruby2: no binaries available, but will be available for the upcoming> preview releaseUnless something has changed drastically since the last time I triedit on OS X it is far from a standard compile. I never did get itworking. I''m afraid I don''t remember the issues I was having indetail.> You can use rubyscript2exe to bundle the wxruby binary as part of a> standalone executable. This works on any platform.I wasn''t aware that it worked on linux and osx. That''s good to know. Thanks for your answers. -- Hans FugalFugal Computing