Today marks the first official release of Shoes, entitled Curious.
Shoes is a tiny toolkit (coded in C) for writing windowing apps in Ruby.
It's quite cross-platform, offering an environment for Windows, OS X,
Linux, BSDs and many others. Shoes is a reactionary work, countering
the widget-centric toolkits like FOX, QT and Tk. I take my cues from
REBOL/View, Processing, NodeBox and the web.
At its core, Shoes amounts to about 8,000 lines of C code and 1,000
lines of Ruby code.
Shoes also includes a built-in manual. Run: shoes --manual. This
document is perhaps 1/2 complete, let's say.
At any rate, the new builds are:
* Windows XP/Vista:
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious.exe
* Mac OS X (Intel)
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious-intel.dmg
* Mac OS X (PowerPC)
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious-ppc-novideo.dmg
* Linux/BSD source tarball
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/dist/shoes-0.r396-curious.tar.gz
Most Shoes discussion happens on hackety.org. The Shoes development
page is at: <http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes>
And that, my friends, is that.
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