On 6/4/06, John Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Great hint, I'm aware of this project but this idea never occured to me. > -- John > > [1] http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ > opensourceuniversalframework.html -- Oleg "2sheds" Kourapov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.2sheds.ru _______________________________________________ Instiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users
