Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] problems with ruby/gtk/tcp

[Sutou K. <ko...@co...>]

Hi,

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  "Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] problems with ruby/gtk/tcp" on Sun, 2 Aug 2020 17:57:59 +0200,
  amerke <art...@ud...> wrote:

> thank you kou, this seems to work fine (but is not well documented :-(

I hope that this GC related work is done without user
code. But I don't have an idea for now. :<
(The block of ss.signal_connect("incoming") doesn't refer
local variables like the channel automatically.)

> btw. just another question: what about the status of ruby and GTK
> (ver. 4). is it going to be continued in the future?

Yes.
There is an implementation for Ruby/GTK4:
https://github.com/ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome/tree/master/gtk4
We'll release it when GTK 4 is released.

> (the number of posts in this list is almost 0 :-)

Recently, users use GitHub issues:
https://github.com/ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

> also there are almost no ruby/GTK projects on github ...

It seems there are 20+ projects that use Ruby/GTK3:
https://rubygems.org/gems/gtk3/reverse_dependencies

> earlier on i used qt4 but the support for qt4 was discontinued (no
> qtbindungs for qt5) ... so i would like to know more about the future
> of ruby/GTK. i think missing good ruby support for the two major
> platforms (GTK/QT) is one of the reasons why ruby is staying behind
> python, considering the number of (gui but also other) projects
> etc. (at least outside of japan)

We'll maintain Ruby/GTK4, Ruby/GTK5 and so on because we (at
least me) will use them. :-)


Thanks,
--
kou