From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-12-15T21:52:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7308] RE:  Packaging Ruby

Nolan Darilek wrote:

> I've begun investigating Ruby;

It's great to see you here.

> whether something like Python's freeze utility exists for
> Ruby. 

Not any that I'm aware of. OTOH, I've not worked with Python so I might be
misunderstanding you here.

Having said that, I wonder if it would be a problem to write an utility
which grabs all the used libraries and produces a "local copy version" of
them. Which in turn could be packaged by various tools and shipped to
"customer".

There would be probably some issues with dynamically loaded libraries, and
other system specific stuff. And I wonder how to draw a line between
"developer" and "customer" stuff, as many developer's would love to install
stuff easily too...

Dare anyone fantasize more?

	- Aleksi