Re: [ruby-fltk-devel] fltk.so?

[Takaaki T. <tt...@ja...>]

At Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:06:35 -0700 (PDT),
Kevin Smith wrote:
> Right now, we have fltk.so. For a system administrator,
> they would have no way to know that this is related to
> ruby. Also, there are some extensions to ruby-fltk that I
> would like to write in ruby itself (like a GraphicContext
> class).

As fltk.so usually installed in the ruby's directory like
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux/fltk.so, I think the
administrator can find it is a ruby's library.

> So, can we create a little fltk.rb (that just has require
> 'rubyfltk'), and then rename the main library to
> rubyfltk.so?

Yes, we can create a `fltk.rb' with `fltk.so'. If we load
the `fltk.so' from `fltk.rb', we can write:

  require "fltk.o"

Ruby/Gtk and Ruby/Qt make `gtk.so' and `qt.so', but I've never
heard any problem about these libraries.
So I think we had better create `fltk.so'.
-- 
Takaaki Tateishi <tt...@ja...>