On Jan 4, 2008, at 12:16 PM, why the lucky stiff wrote:
But how would the gem be easier? I feel like you're suggesting
a gem simply because it's what you're used to, not because of any
specific merits, yeah? Why not just run Shoes from the commandline?
That's pretty easy!
I concede. Now that I have shoes-bin running properly, my gem itch
doesn't feel like it needs as great a scratch. I suppose my idea of a
shell script with the #! with regard to shoes is sort of replaced by
completeness of a Shy.
I think you should consider Shoes as slightly more than a library.
It is an environment. I am not competing with wxRuby, FXRuby,
QTRuby or Ruby/TK. The runtime is closer to REBOL/View or Adobe Air
or Firefox. And by beginners I also mean: folks who download your
Shoes program and want to run it without the hassle of installing
Ruby and all the other libs.
You download a shy and you double-click it. It runs like an app.
It's
managed like any other app: in your Applications folder or Start
Menu or in /usr/local/bin. You know what I mean? I want these to
be bona fide little progs.
Oh, so a shy is closer to a little shell script or a Smalltalk image,
self deployable complete with a mini-ruby inteprerter! That's pretty
neat. I was actually thought of them as closer to Firefox extensions
for Hackety Hack, which I also mistook for the actual platform. I
didn't think they were going to be so well featured. Thanks for
explaining.
Mark Baran
