"Conrad Schneiker" <schneik / us.ibm.com> writes:

> OK. I think most everyone would mostly agree that this is a
> reasonably viable option to consider. But could you give us a better
> idea of why you prefer FOX to other options, such as wxWindows and
> GTK+ and Tkinter? Are there enough people working on core FOX that
> it would clearly thrive if support by its corporate parent went
> away? (c.f. Tk and Ajuba, where the rate and fate of future
> development of Tk is not at all clear.)

From my perspective, I think FOX is worth considering because:

1. It looks better than GTK, particularly to Windows users.

2. Its Windows development is part of the main process, rather than a 
   bolt-on project.


Let's assume Ruby thrives, and that FOX becomes the GUI of choice for a 
new generation of Ruby developers. Should external support for FOX
start to dry up, I'm guessing that folks in the Ruby community will
step in and help.

I think there is no clear winner in all this process, but GTK makes me
slightly nervous, and I'd like to see what a FOX-based interface
looked like (both visually and in code) before making my mind which
library I personally will be using.

And I think that's an important point. We're not deciding here which
library developers must use. We're simply debating the pros and cons
of individual libraries. Eventually, the conclusions we reach may
affect which libraries get included in various distributions, but
we're not doing anything that prevents a team from using any GUI
library they want.


Regards


Dave