From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T08:11:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23773] Re: RubyGems Status (was: Re: Some inspirations from REBOL)

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> Well sometimes I need some pushing :)
> 
Ok, I'll keep that in mind... ;-)

> Unfortunately I haven't been able to get much time lately to work on
> RubyGems, but this week I should be able to get some time.  I think part
> of my problem is that I keep thinking of new things that I can do and
> then I want to implement that before I release, hehe.  But as Chad
> Fowler has told me many times I just need to get it on CVS and make a
> quick release so that people can start playing with it.  I'm sure no one
> expects it to be perfect when it is first released (well no one but me
> ;)
> 
Release to CVS as quickly as possible! 

> - directly running RubyGems (like java -jar)
> 
> Ex: rg_run SomeGem-1.0.0.0.rbg
> 
> The idea is that there will be a metadata element that indicates the
> file that has the main program, and RubyGems will modify $0 then eval
> that file inside the gem.  This way the idiomatic "if $0 == __FILE__"
> stuff can just be used like it normally would.
> 
> For now there will be a separate script (rg_run) to run the gems, but
> I'm sure we could add support to the ruby executable itself for this
> (ruby -gem ?)  I believe Matz expressed some interest in this.
> 
So you haven't considered my proposal of making them valid Ruby programs
by giving them a minimal Ruby header and then attching the binary data? 
Would be no need to alter the interpreter for this...

I'm sure there are many flaws with this idea but would be nice to
discuss...

/Robert