Joao P. wrote:
Hi,
On 11/29/06, William J. [email protected] wrote:
> free times) to maintain the project. I think Masao has worked on some
> the 0.15.x destabilization, even though the CVS HEAD version seems to
> be more stable for everybody.
>
> Cheers,
> Joao
I just wanted to add a couple of things to Joao's excellent explanation
of the current status of Ruby-GNOME 2's project. It is very much still
being actively worked on, though, as much as can be expected from only 2
developers working on the C[++] backend of the deal. Which is where the
biggest deals of Ruby-GNOME2 has to be worked on. Add to that, (No
offense Masao or Kouhei), neither speak much English. So it's kinda a
language barrier there to. Though we're slowly educating them to the
way us American's talk, I'm sure.
Plus, the difference between the bindings of Gnome2 and wxRuby, are
major, and substantial. wxRuby is going through a complete re-work of
the entire code base, for the bindings. They are converting from
hand-coded wrappers, to a SWIG interface. So there are still quite a
few instabilities with wxRuby, and it’s not guaranteed that the API is
going to remain the same. Where as, with Gnome2 bindings, there’s a lot
of foundation there already, that will work with most newer versions of
GTK+ API, however, the changes the GTK+ Development team are doing to
the memory handling, and such, is causing a lot of headaches, but a lot
of patches to be added to the bindings, from other authors, to fix these
problems. Ruby-GNOME2 will become stable again, as these patches come
along, and people help test the newest code. But, till such time, kinda
have to go with the flow of things, and understand, that it’s mostly a 2
man team that is working on the backend of this thing.
I only wish, there was a GTK-Slim for Windows, that would make the
distro a lot smaller for applications that I write, and make certain
things a bit faster, then I’d come back to Ruby-GNOME in a heartbeat.
As for the comment about the certain things a bit faster, I’m mainly
talking about the fact that Ruby-GNOME2’s Gtk::Entry in one of my
applications seems to be a bit slow to respond, when typing. I’ll end
up having to try the newer version of Ruby-GNOME2 to see if it has
improved. Which reminds me, anyone have a mswin32 compile of
Ruby-GNOME2 bindings for CVS?
L8ers,
Mario S.
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