RE: [Wxruby-dev] More concerns/problems

[Curt Hibbs]

Kevin Smith wrote:
> 
> 1. First, I would like to get an empty skeleton wx.h added to the
> official sources. Every .cpp module should include wx.h, so we have a
> place to put code common to all modules, such as my Ruby 1.6
> compatibility wrappers. It could be named something different. It should
> probably perform the includes of wx/wx.h and ruby.h so each .cpp file
> doesn't have to.

Yes.

> 2. I am still concerned about naming our shared library wx.so. What
> happens when the perl or tkl folks want to create a wxWindows wrapper,
> and also decide to call it just wx.so? From what I can tell, wxPython
> appears to be named wxPython.so so I again propose wxruby.so or
> wxRuby.so.

I abosultely agree here -- it should be named wsruby.so.

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> 6. I notice that method names are upper case, which matches the
> wxWindows standard but does not match the Ruby standard. As long as Ruby
> won't get confused, I'm ok keeping them as upper case. I know Ruby does
> treat variables differently depending on the case of the first letter,
> so I'm slightly concerned.

I would go with Ruby standard names.

Curt