[Kde-bindings] Future and status of qtruby (on Windows ?)

[Han Holl]

Hello,

I've been playing with qtruby (on Linux, I'm a Linux only person), and I've 
been surprised by the completeness of it all. I't far from robust (feed the 
wrong kind of object to a method, and you're sure to get a segfault), but
as long as you don't make mistakes, everything seens to work. This is of 
course the best of two worlds.
At work I'm programming servers in ruby (fun, and works great), but colleagues 
of mine are creating GUI's fow Windows (to communicate with my servers), and 
they are working in Delphi, which really is a very poor environment when 
compared with Qt and ruby.
I wonder if in future they might switch to Qt/Ruby, which for us would have 
the additional advantage of having the same development language, apart from 
the enormous productivity gain.
For this to happen I must convince my management, that Qt/Ruby on Windows has 
a future: as long as it's a one man project I don't think they are going to 
go for it.
The question really is: is there any chance that TrollTech is going to adopt 
these bindings (probably Python and Perl as well) on Windows? It would 
probably been seen as a direct competitor of their own QSA product, which I 
cannot believe has a strong market position.
Paying for Qt licenses is of course not a problem for us, so it might be seen 
by TrollTech as a means to promote Qt. After all, other people are creating 
these languages (of which at least one is wonderful) for free.
Has this been discussed anywhere already ?

Cheers,

Han Holl

PS Of course, what I would really love to see is the replacement of Windows 
with Linux desktops, but I don't realistically think I can wait that long. 
But when it happens, I'll be ready.