On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Tim Uckun <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hope I'm not out in left field--any other thoughts? > > > Here is my two cents... > > Shoes is a ruby distribution. It's only ruby distribution that allows you to > pack up your ruby, your code, and gems (kind of) and ship it as a native > application on the big three operating systems. > > IMHO this makes shoes the most innovative ruby distribution out there. > There is nothing else like it.
http://rawr.rubyforge.org/ does much the same thing, except for being bound to the jvm of course. I would definitely love to see shoes's packaging innovations rolled back into the main ruby tree, though. martin
