From: Joe <qbproger@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T12:53:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby questions

On Jan 8, 2008 10:41 PM, Jan Dvorak <jan.dvorak@kraxnet.cz> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 January 2008 03:58:17 Joe wrote:
> > Honestly, the best way I've seen to distribute a ruby app to actual
> > users that I've seen is JRuby.  Compile your program to java bytecode
> > and you can distribute it in a jar.
> What about extensions ? (ruby-opengl in this case)

Java OpenGL extensions are available.  I don't mean to push JRuby so
hard, but when looking for a good distribution mechanism a while back
it's the best i could find.  It'd also work on platforms I don't own.
I don't have a mac, but I'd like software i write to be able to run on
it.  I don't expect my users to use the command line to start the
program.  I guess other people have different requirements.

>
> > sorry, my mistake.  The name of it always makes me think windows only.
> >  It can run on all platforms, but it's not a cross platform solution.
> > The exe generated is only for the platform it's running on.
>
> Technically speaking this is not cross-platform solution either, as the
> bytecode runs only on the Java platform. For distribution you're just trading
> dependency on ruby interpreter for dependency on java bytecode interpreter.
>
> Tools like rubyscript2exe will get you OS-dependent binary, but it is
> self-sustained and will run without any other dependencies.

I guess I should have said OS independent.  I'd like for something in
ruby to be similar to the jar, but it hasn't seem to emerged yet.

>
> Jan
>
>