From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2010-08-28T00:19:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Shoes as Gems or other such

Hey there, thanks for the interest in Shoes!

> The standard way of using shoes is to download shoes and use ruby from
> shoes, but what I would like to do is download shoes as a gem and use it
> from ruby. Is there a way of doing that? Os some thing similar.

There isn't a way to do this currently. Shoes has its own separate
copy of Ruby within it, and it keeps its own gems. Why gave his
rationale here:

> This is Shoes. Which isn’t a Ruby library. It’s not a gem. It’s a kit. Shoes has an installer. You click on a .shy file (such as Tetris) and it launches Shoes.

http://wiki.github.com/shoes/shoes/clearing-up-the-whole-shoes-and-rubygems-deal

>
> PS I am using Linux Mint ( essentially Ubuntu ), so there are a lot of
> ruby stuff that I can get as deb packages. So I'm hesitant to lose all
> that to get an independent shoes.

Out of curiosity, what would you get as a .deb, and why would that be
better than using RubyGems for everything?


Also, on this general topic, there is talk of eventually packaging
Shoes as a gem. Right now, that's not feasible, but after the Shoes 3
release on Whyday, Team Shoes is currently working out exactly what we
want to do with Shoes in the future, and it's one possibility. This
would require a total rewrite of Shoes, though, so it's not something
that's being considered lightly.