From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-11-09T23:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Catapult 0.1.0 Released

Pe�a, Botp wrote:

> James Britt [mailto:jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com] wrote:
> 
> //Catapult 0.1.0 has been released
> //
> //Catapult is a simple WEBrick instance that dynamically loads and 
> //executes objects defined by URL paths.
> 
> this can be very handy. do you have rpa for this?

No.  There is no packaging other than the tarball.

I've considered doing a gem, though I'm not sure if that is even worth it.

The code is a script that kicks off WEBrick; it think that makes it more 
an application than a library.  I call this script using a wrapper 
script so that I can set environment variables, so in that context, 
Catapult could be located as a Ruby lib.  But, as a practical matter, 
the launch.rb app would likely to live someplace outside of the Ruby lib 
directories.

If there are any suggestions on a good way to do this (as a gem or an 
rpa package, or both), please let me know.  I've made gems, but no rpa 
packages, so this would be of interest to me.


Thanks,

James