Saturday, April 21, 2007
Escaping the Sabayon testing tree
I am still using Sabayon, the mini CD on a laptop and the full DVD install on my desktop. It has been great but.... the testing tree packages have been painful to deal with. My masked.packages file keeps growing and installing Java was a nightmare.
Because Sabayon is such a sensational distro I am going to persist. A friend of mine has come up with a great way to escape the testing tree without breaking stuff. Check out his Sabayon Stabiliser idea at http://www.zencore.com/2007/04/sabayon-stabiliser.html.
Because Sabayon is such a sensational distro I am going to persist. A friend of mine has come up with a great way to escape the testing tree without breaking stuff. Check out his Sabayon Stabiliser idea at http://www.zencore.com/2007/04/sabayon-stabiliser.html.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The Browser IS the GUI
This was something I was saying 10 years ago and somehow lost sight of it along the way.
I am writing a cross-platform tool in Ruby (after looking at using .NET/mono) and have been test coding using FOX (Free Objects for X) and wxWidgets. I decided on these two as my finalists for a GUI framework after looking at GTK, QT, tcl/tk.
Having started life coding in a MS IDE, I had to say the open source GUI builders for Ruby code generation... well they suck. MS has done a nice job in building environments for developers. After realising the pain (and numerous kludges/workarounds) I would have to go through to get a relatively simple tool working I gave up.
Then it hit me, Web 2.0, HTML using existing Ruby libraries like Rails or Nitro - The Browser IS the GUI. So I'll use VisualuRuby for my Windows development and Web for cross platform, now I can concentrate on solving the problem not wrangling with unwieldly GUI frameworks.
I am writing a cross-platform tool in Ruby (after looking at using .NET/mono) and have been test coding using FOX (Free Objects for X) and wxWidgets. I decided on these two as my finalists for a GUI framework after looking at GTK, QT, tcl/tk.
Having started life coding in a MS IDE, I had to say the open source GUI builders for Ruby code generation... well they suck. MS has done a nice job in building environments for developers. After realising the pain (and numerous kludges/workarounds) I would have to go through to get a relatively simple tool working I gave up.
Then it hit me, Web 2.0, HTML using existing Ruby libraries like Rails or Nitro - The Browser IS the GUI. So I'll use VisualuRuby for my Windows development and Web for cross platform, now I can concentrate on solving the problem not wrangling with unwieldly GUI frameworks.
