I wanted to check in on this comment - --------8<------- I am a bit disappointed that Shoes' dependencies are quite large. And, really, Ruby is the largest of these. While I contemplated using Lua or JavaScript, both seemed to clutter the syntax I had in mind.
_why -------->8------- Would it be worthwhile to look into this project? http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/ Perhaps applications could include only those features of the standard library they are using? I'm not convinced this would be a great idea, but it might be worth looking into. The actual size of the native Ruby interpreter is miniscule, it's the libraries that are causing all the bloat. I assume there's already some kind of 'shy' rake task, maybe it could do a little more and pull all of the used libraries in as well? Thanks, Luke Bayes http://www.asserttrue.com
