Hi guys, It seems I'm alone in opinion on packaging console as a gem right now :-/
In my opinion MacRuby should be Ruby1.9 with original stdlib shape. Nothing more. The only difference should be ObjC runtime + changes forced by this environment. Other useful library additions should be preinstalled macgems, including HotCocoa as a gem. Rich, I'm also promoting including them. I'm just talking about including them in different place of MacRuby release, not in stdlib. Jordan said: > It's very MacRuby-specific, what we're talking about here, and not really a > generic gem. Sounds to me, that you are promoting that MacRuby specific things shouldn't be gems. Gems is a generic system for ruby libraries. No mater how specific they are to specific technologies. Copying bunch of things into stdlib is a dirty old-fashioned way Matz was doing with ruby when no rubygems ever existed :-) Rich said: > The fewer hoops a newbie has to jump through, the better chance that s/he > won't get Tired For a newbie the difference is just in two lines on top of the (generated) file: instead of: require 'console' there will be: require 'rubygems' require 'console' If she knows nothing about gems, then she probably knows nothing about stdlib location. So she takes it as a magic. --- Laurent, I have a proposal for you: I will create console project as a gem published on github (maybe this weekend). And you may freely take what you find useful and include it in MacRuby releases. I want to show that 'gemization' of a ruby library is a piece of cake with github. Anybody then can take it, innovate and republish. And switching is just a mater of running macgem command. regards, Antonin On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I'd like to see the console (and any other generally-useful > tools) included in the MacRuby release. The fewer hoops a newbie > has to jump through, the better chance that s/he won't get Tired > of the Whole Thing and bail out. > > In the meanwhile, I've taken an initial swipe at creating a HowTo > for getting and using Antonin's Console project: > > https://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/MacRubyConsoleHowTo > > After typing "2 + 2" into the irb session, I kinda ran out of > steam, but I will try to get back to it RSN. In the meanwhile, > feel free to contribute and/or correct... > > -r > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 > > Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
