From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-04-19T01:26:04+09:00
Subject: Instiki as a gem (was Re: BlueCloth on Instiki)

On Monday, April 19, 2004, 2:14:29 AM, David wrote:

>> It's not a wiki feature so much, but is there a reason you don't use
>> the
>> rubygem format? I noticed you ship your own versions of redcloth and
>> madeleine,
>> both of those have gems now so they could automatically be installed
>> on demand
>> as part of the instiki install. BlueCloth has one too, as of last 
>> week, I think.

> I remember reading that it was still undecided whether gems would make
> sense for applications or whether they should just be for libraries. Is
> the verdict in on this yet? If gems are suitable for applications, 
> where should I storage the Madeleine databases and zip dumps? I'd 
> rather not hide that away in
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/instiki 
> -- or similar. Suggestions?

RubyGems 0.3 won't be much longer, in which applications are certainly
possible.  The gem lists all the files that are to become
applications, and creates wrappers for them in /usr/local/bin or
whereever (I'm sure it works on Windows too!).  It's a sight to
behold.

As for storing the program data, I don't know.  Where is it stored at
the moment?

Gavin