From: Rich <rich@...>
Date: 2004-06-12T10:50:58+09:00
Subject: Packaging and license for a Windows distribution (was: Re: [ANN] EZExerb 2.0)

Thanks again for working with me - I really haven't written that much Ruby
(much less distributed anything that more than a handfull of people have
used).

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lothar Scholz" <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <rich@lithinos.com>
Cc: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] EZExerb 2.0


> Hello Rich,
>
> R> I'm testing it on WinXP and it's saying that it found ver. 3.2.0, when
the
> R> test box doesn't have a bit of ruby on it.
>
> R> All - Sorry for this noise, let me figure out what's going on and send
more
> R> in a bit.
>
> Think that this simply means that for some reasons you embedded the
> exerb/version file into your .exe file.  Don't know why you want to do
> this.
>

I noticed that too - you're solution is perfect - it's kinda what I wanted

> You can simply call exerb as a ruby command line script as you did
> before but this time with the following code
>
> command_to_execute="ruby -e \'require \"exerb/version\"; puts
Exerb::VERSION"
>   begin
>    @exerb_major_version = IO.popen(command_to_execute).gets.split(".")[0]
>   rescue
>     @exerb_major_version = "0"
>   end
>
> or you deliver the complete exerb package together with your
> extensions. Then you don't need to check anything.
>

There are only two things that are holding me back from distributing Exerb
embedded in my application since I want the source to be 'semi-closed'.

One: I can't figure out how to embed the mkexr script in my application, and
generate my exr file internally. Right now I have to generate it externally
and output the exr file in the same location as the base Ruby script, then
delete it when I'm done. I don't like this solution, since it still makes me
dependant on exerb being installed.

Two: I haven't looked into the license for Exerb, and I haven't really
decided on a license for my product. I know I don't really care if someone
get's the source, but I want to be the only one who messes with this
program. I guess I really haven't figured out what I'm going to do...

> Mixing both styles seems like a bad idea and i guess what you want is the
> former.
>
> By the way. On the website i couldn't find the source code. Only zip
> files containing binaries.
>

Again - the license issue - I still haven't figured out what I'm doing.
Would you think it ok to not release the source? I really like the idea of
just having a pre-packaged one-click install program where everything just
works... it reminds me of the one-click installer for Ruby on Windows by the
Prag. Prog. and how I started in Ruby... it was easy and it just worked.

-Richard

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