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I prefer wxRuby for gui development.  For distrubution on windows machines I
use OCRA which will create an exe of my app so the client does not need
anything to run the app.
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Allan Davis
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Will Parsons <oudeis / nodomain.invalid>wrote:

> 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
>
>

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