On Tue, 6 May 2003, Aredridel wrote:

> A wishlsit for a "Ruby Standard Library":

> * REXML
  * YAML (it's almost insane how much better, for some things, this is than xml)

> * Ruby-Mysql
> * Ruby-Postgres
> * DBI

> * A graphics manipulation library
> * A vector manipulation library? Something for both maths folk and
>   graphics folk?

  * GridFlow http://www.artengine.ca/jmax/gridflow/
  * Narray http://www.ir.isas.ac.jp/~masa/ruby/index-e.html

> * an efficient and modular HTML (and XML?) output toolkit

  * Amrita - best raa package ever IMHO

> * A GUI toolkit, or at least a standard abstract interface to it/them
>     * FXRuby?
>     * Ruby-GTK?
>     * Ruby-GNOME?
>     * RIGS?
>     * Something glade-based for abstract?


i've been thinking that the RAA should have the capability for people to
rank/vote for modules - at least then there would be some data on what people
like/are using.  sound useful?


-a


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