From: Jim Clark <diegoslice@...>
Date: 2007-04-26T14:17:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Watir and Ruby2Exe together

Ganesh Gunasegaran wrote:
> Why not use Adobe apollo 
> (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo)? You can easily bundle a 
> flash file to apollo archive/standalone and you get a standalone 
> application. Apollo has webkit inbuilt and doesn't need a particular 
> browser to be installed in the client machine. Your application might 
> even work in Mac :D
>
> Apollo can easily talk with the local filesystem.
> http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Articles:Apollo_Local_File_System 
>
>
This is very interesting. I'll show this to the Action Script developers 
to see if they have seen it. Since it is still Alpha quality, I can't 
recommend using now based a higher probability of running into new bugs, 
stability issues and I didn't see anything regarding Adobe's licensing 
intentions such as will these be releasing under an open source license 
or what they will be charging for it when it is production quality. I 
was also a bit concerned by the requirement for Windows Vista Home 
Premium Edition instead of just Windows Vista. Not sure why the exact 
requirement there but I would feel completely foolish to build something 
with this to find that it doesn't run on Windows Vista Ultimate or other 
editions in use.

It will certainly be on my watch list now for similar projects in the 
future though once it matures.

Regards,
Jim