From: Brad Tilley <rtilley@...>
Date: 2006-10-22T03:53:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Mission statement: Ruby application for Windows

Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:

> Goal
> ----
> Obtain Windows executable (.exe) file from my Ruby script. I mean not to
> pack all-all-all files and libraries into one huge file...

Rubyscript2exe is the best approach to this right now. One day, there 
will be more options in Ruby for Windows programmers. Personally, I like 
rubyscript2exe rather well, but you're right, like everything it is not 
perfect.

IMHO, Ruby has four areas that will be improved soon:

1. Performance => YARV will solve this.
2. Better Threads => YARV will solve this.
3. Unicode => m17n will solve this.
4. Better Native Windows Apps => ???

Once the Ruby Community addresses these issues, it'll be awesome! Not 
that it isn't awesome now. I will be happy when I can do everything in 
Ruby as easily as I can do them in Python. Personally, I enjoy using 
Ruby *much* more than Python (it's a much more user friendly language 
that isn't so restrictive), but in Python I can do more things today. I 
think this will change soon.

Just my 2 cents.

Brad

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