On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:40:01AM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering what was the story with FreeRIDE?  About a month ago there
> > was a lot of talk about it, but I haven't heard much since.  Is there
> > somewhere I can download it, or has it still not been released?
> > If not, is
> > there a timeframe for its (unofficial, of course :) release date?
> >
> > Anxiously looking forward to it (and very much appreciatively),
> >
> > Chris
> 
> Thanks for your interest (and your patience!). I'm going to cross-post this
> to the ruby ML to help keep everyone informed.
> 
> We haven't yet made an official release. We've been fixing a few
> show-stopper problems, cleaning up the code, and writing documentation. Work
> and family always seem to take priority, as well, so it has been taking
> longer that we wanted. Our updated release task list is at:
> 
> 	http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Release_0.5.0_Tasks

Some time ago I tried to run FreeRIDE but, being on a Debian GNU/Linux
Sid box, I didn't have FXScintilla nor FXRuby installed.
I worked my way to make the pertinent packages, to avoid cluttering up my
/usr/local (yes, I do know stow :) 

I've seen on the TODO list that you're planning to make Debian
packages, so this might interest you.

Right now I have the following working in my sid box (haven't tested it
thoroughly yet, but the packaging is quite simple indeed):
 libfox-ruby
 libfox-ruby1.7		(for the 1.7 branch, can coexist with the latter)
 libfxscintilla1
 libfxscintilla1-dev	(headers and static lib)

Is this of any use for you?

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