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

[Darrin T. <dth...@ch...>]

Did your decision to not use SWIG take into consideration the recent 
developments there? From what I've read on the english ruby-talk list, 
SWIG 1.3 is turning into a really excellent tool and the ruby to c code 
generator is excellent. Perhaps you all should reconsider?

http://swig-jp.dyndns.org/ <- Japanese. I don't know what it actually 
says. :-)

Darrin

Masao Mutoh wrote:

>Hi,
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>On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 15:17:52 -0500
>Darrin Thompson <dth...@ch...> wrote:
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>>I have a few questions. Wish I knew Japanese.
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>OK, How I wish I knew English well;->.
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>>Does anyone have a ballpark idea of when ruby-gnome2 will be stable 
>>enough for general use?
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>Sorry, but NO, though we make efforts.
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>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.
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>And then, I am going to improve APIs and constants.
>#This is just an idea. I want any ideas/comments.
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>(1) Setter/Getter
>In Ruby-GNOME, as there are no rule, we got confused sometimes.
>So I decide to make rules as follows:
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> * 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.
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>(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
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>      GtkResponseType
>         GTK_RESPONSE_NONE     ->  Gtk::Dialog::RESPONSE_NONE
>         GTK_RESPONSE_REJECT   ->  Gtk::Dialog::RESPONSE_REJECT
>         GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT   ->  Gtk::Dialog::RESPONSE_ACCEPT
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>    - The constants is independant from objects
>      (though I don't know whether such constants exists).
>       GTK_FOO_BAR -> Gtk::FOO_BAR
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>>Will it be easy to integrate the appropriate parts of ruby-gnome2 with 
>>the one-click windows installer from rubycentral.com?
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>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.
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>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....
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>>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. :-)
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>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!
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