Well, there is a pretty simple way how to package up .rb files into an .exe file w/o precompiling anything. One option is to build a self-extracting zip file or something like that. That would solve the deployment issue. Improving startup time via pre-compilation is much more work.
Tomas From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of David Escobar Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5:48 PM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] What's next? Pre-compiling code would allow us to distribute our programs in .exe and .dll form, rather than .rb files. IronPython allows this with its pyc.py script. And if that means faster startup times and using Ruby code statically from C#, then all the better. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Tomas Matousek <tomas.matou...@microsoft.com<mailto:tomas.matou...@microsoft.com>> wrote: What would you like to achieve by pre-compiling code? Faster startup time? Packaging your code in a dll instead of a bunch of .rb files? Using Ruby code statically from C#? Tomas -----Original Message----- From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org> [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org>] On Behalf Of Martin Smith Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:14 AM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> Subject: [Ironruby-core] What's next? Hey Guys, Now that IronRuby 1.0 has shipped (congrats!!), what's next on the docket? :) I'm not trying to pressure you guys! Just excited about the future. The feature i'd love to see most would be pre-compilation... Thanks for such a great product, Martin _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
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