[Wxruby-dev] RE: about wxruby

[Curt Hibbs]

Great! We could definitely use help as both Bob and I (the only two people
on the project) are also working on the FreeRIDE project (plus regular work,
family, etc.) -- so we are spread pretty thin.

The wxRuby project wiki is at: http://www.wxruby.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl.
However, at present, this is mostly a shell of a project site with very
little in the way of real content.

and the wxRuby CVS repository and mailing list are on Savannah (you can find
the mailing list at:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/index.php?group=wxruby).

A brief history:

- Bob Calco started wxRuby.
- I later joined Bob.
- Park Heesob donated a partially working port of wxPython (uses SWIG).
- The project was put on hold in Oct to focus on the FreeRIDE release.

Bob and I wanted to avoid using SWIG interface files by having SWIG just
read the wxWindows header files. This would minimize the effort required for
ongoing maintenance as new versions of wxWindows were released.
Unfortunately, SWIG was not sophisticated enough to be able to do this and
manually created interface files were found to be necessary.

It looks like Cable might be able to do this. If so, we would drop the
SWIG-based work and start over with Cable. But, neither Bob nor I have yet
had the time to check this out.

So, if you're interested, you could investigate Cable (try it out) and help
us determine if this is viable.

Curt



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lin [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 4:28 PM
> To: Curt Hibbs
> Subject: RE: about wxruby
>
>
> Sure, It would be cool to join the project because
> I really want a working wxRuby.  I think I will read up on
> Cable first.  Do you guys have a mailing list where you
> exchange your ideas or an irc channel?
>
> Richard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curt Hibbs" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:17:43 -0800
> To: "Richard Lin" <address@hidden>
> Subject: RE: about wxruby
>
> > Richard Lin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >   I would like to know the current progress of wxruby, and when
> > > the release time would be.  Thank you very much.  I'm really
> > > looking forward to this.
> > >
> > > Richard
> >
> > Work on wxRuby has been on hold since October while I/we have focused on
> > getting the first release of FreeRIDE out the door. The
> original motivation
> > for starting wxRuby was and still is because we need it for
> FreeRIDE (unless
> > FOX somehow acquires the missing pisses of functionality that FreeRIDE
> > needs).
> >
> > We currently have a very basic version of wxRuby working under
> Windows (but
> > with bugs), and it has not yet been ported/tested on any other
> platform. We
> > also just discovered an alternative to SWIG called Cable
> > (http://public.kitware.com/Cable/HTML/Index.html) that looks
> like it might
> > be much better and less labor intensive than SWIG, so we are going to
> > evaluate the possibility of switching to Cable as an interface
> generation
> > tool. Doing so would set us back at first, but pay off down the road.
> >
> > Realistically, wxRuby is many months away from an initial
> release. Would you
> > be interested in in joining the project and helping us out?
> >
> > Curt
> >
>
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