From: Jake <jsuntheimer@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T10:53:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Why a compiled Ruby?


What ruby **needs** is the equivalent of tcl's starkits.  It meets all of
your requirements.  About 1 meg, cross-platform, supported in core.  There
are alternative starkits, with various libs included, and can be turned into
"starpacks"- single standalone executable apps that can be built for any
platform tcl is ported too (quite a lot, to say the least).

Tclkit: A standalone runtime for Tcl/tk-based applications:
http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/

Jake
"Why do I always talk about tcl on comp.lang.ruby, and ruby on
comp.lang.tcl?"


Mikkel wrote
> 1MB would easily be acceptable. I think Ruby's current runtime is not very
> large actually - and exerb does pull a nice stunt at wrapping it up -
> although I have yet to experiment with it.
>
> For distibution purposes it doesn't really matter if it is xor'ed
sourcecode
> or bytecode. Exerb is close to a real solution, but it's windows only and
it
> ought to be supported directly in the Ruby core development. It should
also
> support creating dynamic "packages" such that you don't have to ship, say,
> FxRuby with every piece of code.
>