From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T00:47:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Packaging dillema

Erik Veenstra wrote:
> James wrote:
>>My solution was to create the exe, and bundle it in a zip
>>file with sample scripts and a default config file. The
>>installation was basically to unzip the bundle to create the
>>application directory structure and default files, then just
>>run the main app exe.
> 
> 
> Or create a user directory full of templates, simply by
> unzipping an embbeded ZIP file. Or use Tar2RubyScript to create
> an RBA which includes the application and the templates
> directory (but not the shared objects!...) and copy this
> template directory to user space the first the application is
> started.

Ah, quite good.  This would alleviate a problem I had when I first 
handed the zipped ile/exe set over to someone for a test drive.  The app 
ran but could not find the bundled test scripts.  I then realized that 
the code was running on WinXP, which offers the dubious feature of 
treating zip files as actual folders.  My test user just ran the exe 
straight from the zip; the program could not find the needed files 
because they were never correctly extracted.  Having the exe progam do 
the extraction would prevent this sort of thing.

James

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