Will Parsons wrote:
> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>>
>> 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.)  

I'm shying away from Tk since I understand the API is awful (and I don't 
like the look of Tk apps that much), but FXRuby looks pretty impressive. 
One question, though: what's the state of FXRuby on Mac OS?  I don't 
want to stick Mac users with only an X11 app.  I'm a bit nervous that 
none of the production apps listed as FXRuby examples seem to support 
Aqua, but I don't know if that's the fault of the framework.  It appears 
that it may be, since the FOX toolkit definitely does not support Aqua 
according to its own website.

wxRuby, on the other hand, definitely *does* support Aqua.

Best,
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