Re: [paragui-dev] Paragui/Ruby!

[Andrew Ford]

Hey, that's cool.  Will any of these changes break
backwards compatability if they were included in
1.0.x?  Does it break the current Python bindings?  I
think we can include this in 1.2 in any case.
If nothing gets broken, I think it would be fine to
include with the main distribution.  As for question
(1), I don't know, I don't know who was working on the
Python bindings.

Andrew

--- Leon Torres <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I'd like to announce a successful 'swig -ruby' of
> Paragui. Here's
> a screenshot (168k) showing a trivial PG_Application
> being run from the
> interactive ruby shell (irb):
> 
>   http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~leon/ruby/screen.png
> 
> All I did was create the following method in an
> %extend PG_MessageObject
> block as suggested by Alexander Pipelka earlier this
> year:
> 
> static bool RubyCallBack(int id, PG_Widget *widget,
> unsigned long data,
>                       void *clientdata)
> 
> This is using swig1.3.
> 
> Currently, I'm creating a test suite to ensure that
> most things work.
> While I'm at it, I'd like to ask the following:
> 
> 1) Are there any other things that need a custom
> swig interface definition
>    for language-specific bindings?
> 
> 2) Would it be ok if I refactored the GNU Autotools
> setup and .h files to
>    accomodate --enable-ruby? The current SWIG setup
> is a little messy and
>    not entirely language agnostic, so I'll be
> touching the Python setup
>    too. As I'm currently mastering the GNU autotools
> (bought the GNU
>    autotools book for this purpose), I'll probably
> clean up other stuff as
>    well, especially the output of ./configure
> --help.
> 
> 3) Should I contribute a patch to the main src
> distribution, or should it
>    be a separate distribution? What's the best way
> to integrate? (There
>    will be a non-trivial amount of Ruby code for
> testing and Ruby-specific
>    documentation.) Some stuff will need to be in the
> main distro.
> 
> If my efforts pan out, Paragui will be the primary
> SDL-based GUI for Ruby
> game programming. I hope that both the Ruby game and
> Paragui-using
> communities will grow as a result. :)
> 
> - Leon
> 
> 
> 
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