From: Csaba Henk <csaba@..._for_avoiding_spam.org>
Date: 2005-02-24T22:35:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Zip Files as deployable Components (was: Re: "module model", how to call it properly?)

On 2005-02-24, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
> This stirred up another idea: what if we could distribute components as
> zip files?  require would then need to look at these, too.  I don't
> oversee all implications yet, but it might be worth thinking a bit more
> about this as this could make deployment easier.

Hm, shall we steal the good bits of the yet untouched languages, like...
Java? :)

What real-life demands could be better satisfied by this? For the
Windows platform, there is rubyscript2exe, for the others, there are
rakefiles, gems,... I don't say these work perfectly, but they are on
the right path for making installing packages painless, aren't they?

And yet there are no such huge packages for which the compression gained
by zipping would be a major benefit. Or...?

Csaba