[Insight-users] Ruby wrapper for ITK?

[Ali -]

Gaetan,

Thanks for your answer. I understand that there are other wrapped languages 
for ITK, however, ruby is another story -- despite being painfully slow, its 
popularity is amazingly increasing (see this 
http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index). It seems ruby is going to 
overtake python by the end of this year and, in long term, it could be as 
popular as java.

The problem with binding a new language in ITK and VTK is that they are not 
designed for independent language binding, ie, adding a wrapper as an 
add-on. It is a shame having this condition while the developments is based 
on the highly-configurable cmake system. Perhaps ITK and VTK should have 
been designed in a way that people could contribute their wrapping add-ons 
simply as a new independent directory rather than editing countless cmake 
files in many directories. In this way, you have to ship the wrapper either 
as a patch or as together with the full source codes, none of them are 
attractive.

Unfortunately, it seems that the official developers do not mind this 
problem as the recent versions still drag the old mixed wrapping structure.

I will let you know when some spare time is available to kill it on yet 
another wrapper.

>
>Hi Ali,
>
>There is no ruby wrapper for ITK, and there is no plan to do that, unless  
>someone motivated and with a good knowledge of ruby want to work on that.  
>ITK is already wrapped for python, tcl and java. The work already done  
>should be easy to reuse to wrap ITK for another language.
>
>Please contact me if you are interested on working on ruby wrapper, and  
>we'll discuss how it can be done.
>
>Regards,
>
>Gaetan
>
>
>
>Le Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:59:33 +0100, Ali - <saveez at hotmail.com> a écrit:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is there a Ruby wrapper available for ITK? Are ITK developers going to  
>>consider it as part of the official release -- if yes, when?
>>
>>SWIG supports Ruby, would the existing SWIG wrapper be able to wrap ITK  
>>or does it need re-implementation?
>>
>>There is a Ruby wrapper available for VTK, would it be of any use for  
>>wrapping ITK?
>>
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>Gaëtan Lehmann
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