From: Robert Klemme Date: 2005-02-24T23:45:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Zip Files as deployable Components (was: Re: "module model", how to call it properly?) "Csaba Henk" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:slrnd1rlbv.c22.csaba@ms0.math.ucalgary.ca... > On 2005-02-24, Robert Klemme 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? :) How did you know I was thinking of 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...? You're probably right. Gem is far more convenient than downloding a zip and placing it somewhere and it does use compressed files during transportation AFAIK. IMHO the major advantage would not be compression but bundling of several files into a single physical entity. But, yes, I guess gems do that better. Kind regards robert