I’ve been considering, for a while now, starting a “reward” fund to
have someone code up a patch for the Mozilla codebase that would allow
Mozilla to use Ruby as a scripting language. There’s been some
half-hearted talk about this in the past, but I’m not a C developer
(anymore) and while I don’t have time to work on any such project, I’d
be happy to contribute some dollars to someone who was willing.
Are there any like-minded folk out there? I’m just making noises at
the moment, and trying to see what people think about this.
One idea that’s been flitting about my head has been that Mozilla is a
XUL engine, making it a full-fledged GUI toolkit in itself. If Ruby
code were executable within Mozilla, we’d instantly have a GUI toolkit
that ranks up among the top two or three ubiquitous cross-platform
toolkits in the world.
In the long run, there’d be some sandboxing issues to consider, but
it’d be interesting to see where this could go.
One idea that’s been flitting about my head has been that Mozilla is a
XUL engine, making it a full-fledged GUI toolkit in itself. If Ruby
code were executable within Mozilla, we’d instantly have a GUI toolkit
that ranks up among the top two or three ubiquitous cross-platform
toolkits in the world.
I love XUL… because its declared via xml, I think it should be lot
easier to do UI-testing.
just a thought…
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:04:02 -0800, Sean Russell wrote:
Maybe this is a tangent, but: I don’t have a strong opinion about what
to use for a cross-platform GUI toolkit, but I do remember at RubyConf
last year that David Black was talking about setting up a non-profit
for Ruby stuff. I don’t know anything about the progress of that–I
work at a non-profit and can tell you that sometimes it involves a lot of paperwork–but I can say one of the great things about having
a non-profit to administer things such as funding Moz-Ruby integration
is that donations to such a non-profit are tax-deductible.
On the other hand, such a structure might prove to be more cumbersome
than it’s worth …
I’ve been considering, for a while now, starting a “reward” fund to
have someone code up a patch for the Mozilla codebase that would allow
Mozilla to use Ruby as a scripting language. There’s been some
half-hearted talk about this in the past, but I’m not a C developer
(anymore) and while I don’t have time to work on any such project, I’d
be happy to contribute some dollars to someone who was willing.
Are there any like-minded folk out there? I’m just making noises at
the moment, and trying to see what people think about this.
One idea that’s been flitting about my head has been that Mozilla is a
XUL engine, making it a full-fledged GUI toolkit in itself. If Ruby
code were executable within Mozilla, we’d instantly have a GUI toolkit
that ranks up among the top two or three ubiquitous cross-platform
toolkits in the world.
In the long run, there’d be some sandboxing issues to consider, but
it’d be interesting to see where this could go.
Maybe this is a tangent, but: I don’t have a strong opinion about what
to use for a cross-platform GUI toolkit, but I do remember at RubyConf
last year that David Black was talking about setting up a non-profit
for Ruby stuff. I don’t know anything about the progress of that–I
No, it isn’t a tangent; it is terribly apropos.
David, what happened with the nonprofit idea? Were you thinking that
it would take on projects such as this?
Maybe this is a tangent, but: I don’t have a strong opinion about what
to use for a cross-platform GUI toolkit, but I do remember at RubyConf
last year that David Black was talking about setting up a non-profit
for Ruby stuff. I don’t know anything about the progress of that–I
No, it isn’t a tangent; it is terribly apropos.
David, what happened with the nonprofit idea? Were you thinking that
it would take on projects such as this?
We’re getting toward what I hope is the end of the longer-than-expected
process of getting tax-exempt status. Stay tuned.
As for projects: our first goal will be to break even on the
Conference But the project you’re describing is certainly within
the realm of the kinds of things we’ve talked about.
Maybe this is a tangent, but: I don’t have a strong opinion about what
to use for a cross-platform GUI toolkit, but I do remember at RubyConf
last year that David Black was talking about setting up a non-profit
for Ruby stuff. I don’t know anything about the progress of that–I
No, it isn’t a tangent; it is terribly apropos.
David, what happened with the nonprofit idea? Were you thinking that
it would take on projects such as this?
We’re getting toward what I hope is the end of the longer-than-expected
process of getting tax-exempt status. Stay tuned.
I should clarify that the corporation already exists (Ruby Central,
Inc.), and is in fact the parent company of the Conference. It’s just
the tax-exempt status that’s still pending.
But the project you’re describing is certainly within