From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T06:36:19+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby versus Tk


On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 06:15 +0900, Alex DeCaria wrote:
> I'm also concerned with portability.  If I write a nice app that I want 
> to share with someone else, and if they are not a knowledgable computer 
> user, which GUI library would be easier for me to talk them into 
> installing on their machine so they can run my application?  Am I 
> correct in thinking that FXRuby comes as part of the Windows 1-click 
> installer?  That would be an advantage.

Windows-wise, I wonder if rubyscript2exe:

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/

would do the trick.  Does it also gather up all the native dependencies?
If so, maybe it'll pull together FOX and the FxRuby bindings and provide
you with a nice exe that folks can just run without even needing to
install Ruby...

Yours,

Tom