Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Deployment questions

[Chris T. <cj...@cj...>]

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 08:47 PM, Rod Schmidt wrote:

> I haven't seen anything on this and I'm wondering what the options are 
> for deploying a RubyCocoa app. Does the user have to install RubyCocoa 
> on their machine or can I deploy it so that it is part of the 
> application bundle. If so, how?
>
> Or do I have to create some kind of installer that will install 
> RubyCocoa for them? Again, how or has somebody already done this?

In CVS, see the file tools/gen_standalone_library.rb on the 
ct-file-size-opt branch. This script generates a Ruby + RubyCocoa 
static library that you can link into your app. You can distribute the 
resulting application, and the user should never know the difference. 
No installer required.

This actually worked around RubyCocoa 0.2.5ish, but I haven't had time 
to continue work on it (new job, new baby), and I don't know if it 
still works with 0.3. It's pretty simple, though, and there are obvious 
improvements that could be made. Shouldn't be too difficult to bring up 
to date if needed (famous last words...).

Another way to do it would be to bundle the RubyCocoa framework and 
libruby inside your app bundle, but this solution incurs additional 
launch time overhead.

Chris