From: Patrik Sundberg <ps@...>
Date: 2001-12-18T22:13:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28865] Re: [IDEA] creating stand-alone versions for easy distribution etc

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:46:20PM +0900, Robert Feldt wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Patrik Sundberg wrote:
> 
> > 1. create a good tool for analyzing dependencies. must also be able to fall
> > back on explicitly named dependencies.
> > 
> Make this as stand-alone as possible since other projects will need
> it. The recent rdoc discussion springs to mind.

yes, to my mind also.

> > 2. create an archive class for ruby. this would hold just about any file and
> > have a table of contents to be able to find files.
> > 
> > 3. create modified versions of require and load which can use a $ARCHIVEPATH
> > and a $ARCHIVEARRAY for require/load. in $ARCHIVEPATH we list directories to
> > search for arhivefiles (which are marshalled versions of archive objects) and
> > in $ARCHIVEARRAY we put already created archive objects (like the one we will
> > create from the data at the end of a executable).
> > 
> Check out previous discussion on RubyGems. I posted some code that had a
> simple Archive class; maybe you can build on it. Was back in
> october/november or so. Search for Ryan Leavengood and RubyGems.

I know Hurst also had something along these lines in mind WAY back, will look
into this.

> > 4. write a tool which finds dependencies, creates a archive, creates a exe
> > which will:
> >   - create a ruby interpreter (link staticly with libruby and we get the
> > 	version used by the packager?) passing any arguments etc.
> >   - apply the require/load mods
> >   - read the archive from end of file (using argv[0] to find filename?)
> >   - create ruby object from data and stuff it into the $ARCHIVEARRAY
> >   - load the main script using the modified load (i.e from the archive at the
> > 	end of the file)
> > 
> > to me this at a glance seems doable and quite straigt forward :) any
> > reflections?
> > 
> It should be very doable and useful. It was what I had in mind for rbwrap
> but the alpha worked ok for what I needed back then and then I never
> updated it.

fine, then i know this seems like a sound idea and something that doesn't
exist. I hope to get some time during the holidays now to actually implement
it :)

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