On 1/13/06, tsumeruby / tsumelabs.com <tsumeruby / tsumelabs.com> wrote:
> On Friday 13 January 2006 06:23 am, David Vallner wrote:
> > I blame Gtk being mentally associated with a lack of an official binary
> > distribution for Windows - although I'm going out on a limb here, I don't
>
> There are windows binaries for ruby-gtk2 and a gtk installer, what are you
> talking about?
> > A frozen API isn't everything, ease of deployment is _very_ valuable in
> > making end-user applications, and fxruby does deliver perfectly in that
> > respect.
>
> A frozen API is very important not only for the programmer, but for
> distribution. When you have an app with 20,000 lines of code, you don't want
> the app to break just because you now have to handle another add-in.
>
> and ease of deployment is very easy with Gtk/ruby-gtk2 as well.. if you read
> the fine site :)

Some guy recently posted to ruby-gnome2 about a .zip file that he made
that contained a ruby + gnome2 executable that you could run without
having anything installed previously.  Pretty neat.  And the
application looked pretty good too.