Tim Uckun 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.
I don't think it should be a library, I think it should try even
harder to be the best ruby distribution out there. It would be great
if I could ship a rails application as a shoes executable. I think it
would be awesome if I could run a shoes application as a daemon or a
windows service. I want to be able to bundle up everything my
application needs into an exe and send it to my friend and have him be
able to use my application.
Maybe shoes is two different platforms. Maybe it should be broken up
into "the best way to distribute your ruby apps" and "the reddest,
shiniest, most elaborately laced GUI framework".
Whether or not dependencies should be packaged with applications is one
of the computer holy wars. It won't be solved here, or by shoes. Many
people have systems that take care of things like that and hate the idea
of having more then one version of the same library on their system.
(mostly a security problem.) It would be nice if it supported both ways
of doing things, but since I have contributed nothing, I'll keep my
mouth shut and enjoy what I am given.
