I'll be starting work on the XPCOM port shortly, with assistance from Mark Hammond, who wrote the Python XPCOM bindings. Hope that helps, Bryn > -----Original Message----- > From: markus jais [SMTP:mjais / web.de] > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:47 AM > To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org; ruby-talk / netlab.co.jp > Subject: [ruby-talk:10859] component architecture for Ruby? > > hello, > > just a few thoughts. > Today I received the current issue of "Linux Magazine" > There is an article about .NET from Microsoft. > > The author tells, the component based software construction will > be very important. > On Linux, there is Java with JavaBeans which is controlled by Sun. > > And there are two open source efforts the author mentions, namely Bonobo > (from Gnome) and XPCOM (from Mozilla) > > I thinks the author ist right, when he claims, that component based > software > development will be important, especially for big programms. > And because I think, Ruby is well suited for bis programms, > I was wandering, if there are any stable ports of Bonobo or XPCOM for > Ruby.?? > > I think, that Ruby has the potential to became very important, maybe the > Perl > of the new century. but for this, I think a good component model would > be very useful. > > best regards > > Markus Jais