From: Stephen Steiner <ssteiner@...>
Date: 2004-09-07T12:03:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: One-Click Ruby Installer for OS X

> Could you go into a bit more detail about what it would mean to 'have 
> Ruby
> installed as a framework' vs how it is done now?   I'm not too sure I 
> know
> what 'framework' means in this sense.

In Panther, Apple chose to install Python as a framework in 
/Library/Python.  It was installed in the traditional /usr/bin in 
previous versions of OS X.  The framework install is now the standard 
when Python is built on OS X from source as distributed by python.org.

A framework is a self-contained directory tree that contains a shared 
product.  It is analogous to an application bundle but contains shared 
resources (library, utilities, etc.) rather than an application which 
contains only the things related to the application.  Multiple versions 
of a framework can be safely installed side-by-side.

> Are you hoping to get Apple to include all of this in Tiger (or 
> perhaps a later version of Tiger)?

Yes, one of the primary goals of this project is to make Apple's 
installation of Ruby on Tiger on a par (at least!) with the current 
Python install on Panther.

See the wiki at:

http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Steve_Steiner

Thanks for your interest,

Steve