Oleg Kourapov wrote:
> Another hint I could take is how to make all this
> (Instiki.app + ruby + swig) into a Universal Binary.

The Apple Developer site has an article on building a Framework (in  
the OS X development sense) from OSS software[1].  But I think the  
work has already been done for us...

Look at what the Locomotive team has done.  Locomotive (http:// 
locomotive.sourceforge.net/) is an entirely self-contained Ruby+Rails 
+libraries+gems system for Mac OS X designed to give an instant- 
install environment for Rails development.  They have virtually  
identical installation needs (actually, a superset) as Instiki does,  
yet there's just one .app bundle (like Instiki.app) and both Intel  
and PowerPC support.  It's possible that you could just directly  
integrate their rails112.locobundle + Instiki's OS X front-end + the  
Instiki rails installation.  If that simplifies things as much as I  
think it might, it earns a "Powered by Locomotive" link somewhere  
prominent..  ;-)  It might also be possible to use an Instiki-minimal  
subset of the rails112 bundle.  Their main site appears to be down  
right now, so I can't get any info as to whether we could easily  
customize their packaging + build system.

-- John

[1] http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ 
opensourceuniversalframework.html

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