From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2001-10-31T10:09:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23888] Ruby's distribution payload size


The thread on commercial product licensing issues made me think of another
commercial problem.

The main thing that has kept Java from being used for consumer apps is the
size of the distributables (VM, etc.).  They range from 5 megs to 10 megs
which is more that most windows users want to download.  This is a much
bigger problem for Java acceptance than the speed.

Has anyone looked at how large the windows distributable zip file would be
for a Ruby "hello world" program?