Re: [Rubydotnet-developer] [ANN] Ruby/.NET bridge release 4 now available

[Rodrigo B. de O. <rb...@ac...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Sondergaard" <th...@th...>
> ...
> Now that I'm caving in to your design decisions :-) ... I'd like to know
> how the other people on this list feels about the namespace flattening
> feature. Is it what we want for ruby with .net? Why is it that we want
> this with ruby, when the .net folks to great measures to make the
> hierarchy?
> 

I spend most of my time writing C# code nowadays and it just feels natural
to include System::Windows::Forms and reference 'System.Windows.Forms'
whenever I need them.

> Be honest, but not brutal :-)
> 

Well, I don't know how this will sound but I must tell you that I switched
bridges because of the namespace flattening behavior alone.

> ...
> Anyway, I have been thinking about adding editor support to visual
> studio .net 2003 my self, but maybe I wont have to. I think this is
> quite exciting as my fingers always gets confused when I jump between
> ruby/emacs and C#/C++/Visual Studio.
>

Personally, I'd rather see ruby support to a cross-platform free ide such
as eclipse.

> So if ruby threading could just be
> worked out ruby would really be shining on Windows!
> 

Yes!!

all the best,
Rodrigo