> We already implemented this exact thing in a bit more robust way: > > http://pastie.caboo.se/93260
Wow! Hot! > But I decided that ParseTree is too heavy of a dependency. Partree > will never work on windows with the one click installer. Since it > uses rubyinline it needs a C compiler every time it's run :( So > adding this as a dependency would not only make it not work on > windows anymore, it would also make it not work on production servers > that don't have a C compiler installed which is a lot of production > *nix servers. > > I do like the idea of it and it does not affect performance because > parsetree is only ran once on server boot. But it's not going to > happen because of the heavy dependency that would limit where merb > can run. Most shared hosts don't let you use a C compiler and windows > definitely doesn't work with parsetree unless you use cygwin which is > not really a solution. I could (probably) extract/repackage the code from ParseTree to do just the parameter extraction (and without RubyInline). If we had that extension, would it change your opinion? ry _______________________________________________ Merb-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/merb-devel
