On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:16:51PM -0700, Ernest Prabhakar wrote: > These Code-a-thons are in preparation for the next major release of Shoes. > The primary focus is on writing small Ruby desktop applications that stress > test and/or document the Shoes framework, though we also welcome help from > C programmers familiar with Cairo <http://cairographics.org/> and Pango > <http://www.pango.org/> on Windows/Mac/Linux.
Fine, fine work, Doc. I'm really glad for your help. And all the other remarks on the matter. Jenna's stuff is good too. I think I'd rather emphasize help from beginners to Shoes than help from C hackers. Surely anyone is welcome, and help from people who know their way around platform code or debuggers would be grand. However, it could take more than a day for a C fellow to get familiar with all of the APIs that Shoes touches. I would say knowledge of the Ruby API is more important than anything else, since any segfaults probably fail in passing data between Ruby and the other APIs. So, since these sort of people will be a scarcity, I think the time would be well-spent getting Shoes on a varied amount of platforms, abusing it, passing apps around the channel and getting everyone comfortable with sending in bugs. Even spending the time teaching Ruby to non-Rubyists is great, since it gives us a chance to debug the manual. Way to be urgent and thankyou for throwing time into this. I hope this next month will go quickly and enjoyably, so please don't do too much. Shoes is small and inconsequential summer time fun. _why
