From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" Date: 2006-10-21T22:20:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Mission statement: Ruby application for Windows >From: hramrach@gmail.com [mailto:hramrach@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Michal >Suchanek >Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:28 PM >On 10/12/06, Victor Zverok Shepelev wrote: > >> That's all. >> >> Sounds reasonable, ha? >> >So what you want is a hacked ruby interpreter that can read some stuff >(like sources and command line arguments, possibly extra environment >variables) from its resources. Once you get that you can pack your >ruby script into the interpreter with a resource editor. Without >packed arguments you could use it as a standard ruby interpreter. Yeah, I know. I just have no time to do it now :( >That should not be too hard. But for me it is not cool enough to >bother installing development stuff on a Windows box. Question is: to bother WHO? I want to do some desktop utilities and put them onto my site (not for sale, but for fun). For typical Windows user it is a big difference between "just download and start the installer" and "for use this program, you must download and install Ruby (instructions) and those additional libraries (instructions)". >Michal V.