Re: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Status Inquiry

[Masao M. <mu...@hi...>]

Hi,

On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 15:17:52 -0500
Darrin Thompson <dth...@ch...> wrote:

> I have a few questions. Wish I knew Japanese.

OK, How I wish I knew English well;->.

> Does anyone have a ballpark idea of when ruby-gnome2 will be stable 
> enough for general use?

Sorry, but NO, though we make efforts.

Now we are implementing common parts like glib and gobject, 
Ruby object <-> GTK object and others.
Especially, Ruby Object <-> GTK Object converting algorithm was improved 
much better than Ruby-GNOME.

And then, I am going to improve APIs and constants.
#This is just an idea. I want any ideas/comments.

(1) Setter/Getter
In Ruby-GNOME, as there are no rule, we got confused sometimes.
So I decide to make rules as follows:

 * Method has An argument
    setter: hoge=
            set_hoge(a)
    getter: hoge
 * Method has more than 2 arguments
    setter: set_fuga(a, b)
    getter: fuga           #Have no arguments.
            get_fuga(a, b) #Have arguments.

(2) Constants
 * Abolish Constants module. e.g. Gtk::ItemFactory::Constants.
 * Make rules for constants.
   Now I think as follows:
    - If the constants belong an object(class or module) obiviouly, 
      include the constants among members of the object.
      e.g.)In the case of GtkDialog
      GtkDialogFlags
         GTK_DIALOG_MODAL               -> Gtk::Dialog::MODAL
         GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT -> Gtk::Dialog::DESTROY_WITH_PARENT
         GTK_DIALOG_NO_SEPARATOR        -> Gtk::Dialog::NO_SEPARATOR

      GtkResponseType
         GTK_RESPONSE_NONE     ->  Gtk::Dialog::RESPONSE_NONE
         GTK_RESPONSE_REJECT   ->  Gtk::Dialog::RESPONSE_REJECT
         GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT   ->  Gtk::Dialog::RESPONSE_ACCEPT

    - The constants is independant from objects
      (though I don't know whether such constants exists).
       GTK_FOO_BAR -> Gtk::FOO_BAR

> Will it be easy to integrate the appropriate parts of ruby-gnome2 with 
> the one-click windows installer from rubycentral.com?

It is good idea. But now, I don't have any idea, because I don't have any 
knowhows/skills both Win32 and Installer of Win32.

If you have any idea/knowhow/skills about it, I would like to start sub 
project such as installer_win32 under ruby-gnome2
#Though I may not be able to help you....
 
> Thanks to all who are working on it. I've played with a cvs checkout and 
> was able to pop up a dialog from irb. Fun. :-)

Yeah!
Especialy, Sakai-san who is also maintainer of Gimp-Ruby, wrote almost 
of all Ruby/GLib and improved many parts of Ruby-GNOME2. In addition, 
he is still continuing to write more cool source codes for Ruby-GNOME2.
He is so cool hacker. Thanks!

-- 
.:% Masao Mutoh<mu...@hi...>