[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:04147] Re: What are you using Ruby for? -- packaging Ruby programs as single files

From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-07-20 16:35:54 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4147
Hi,

Michael Neumann wrote:

> From: "Charles Hixson" <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
>
> >
> >
> > Conrad Schneiker wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I also think this would be a good idea.  Might also be nice if one could
> include
> > foreign files (jpegs, etc.).  But would be really worthwhile even without
> that.

This foreign files feature would be very useful for web/HTML applications and
for applications with built-in help documentation, so I think this would be a
pretty important  to support this from the start.

(This also suggests another RD/rdtool extension to be able to import graphics
for diagrams and such.)

>
> What about "JAR" (Java-Archive) for Ruby ?

Also seems like an interesting idea.

--
Conrad Schneiker
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