Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Will Parsons wrote:
>> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>>> James Britt wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Users will still have to have Java installed to use a JRuby app.
>>>
>>> I know, but I think I can rely on that.  Have you seen a computer 
>>> without a JVM lately?
>> 
>> Yes.  I'm working on one right now.  
>
> Really?  Under what circumstances?  Even "can't-change-anything" 
> corporate deployments tend to have a usable JVM.

I administer a couple of machines at work running FreeBSD (one of them
mainly used as a server, one for development), and my main machine at home
also runs FreeBSD, all without Java.

>> If you want maximum cross-platform,
>> you shouldn't rely on having Java.
>
> Got a better idea, short of dropping Ruby for this project?  Native 
> packaging on wx?

Personally, I'd take another look at FXRuby or Tk.  (I've never used
wxRuby, so I really don't know its pluses and minuses.)  Maybe JRuby is the
right way to go for your purposes, but you shuold realize that presence of
Java is not universal.

-- 
Will