Robert Klemme
2/24/2005 2:42:00 PM
"Csaba Henk" <csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:slrnd1rlbv.c22.csaba@ms0.math.ucalgary.ca...
> On 2005-02-24, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
> > This stirred up another idea: what if we could distribute components
as
> > zip files? require would then need to look at these, too. I don't
> > oversee all implications yet, but it might be worth thinking a bit
more
> > about this as this could make deployment easier.
>
> Hm, shall we steal the good bits of the yet untouched languages, like...
> Java? :)
How did you know I was thinking of Java? :-))
> What real-life demands could be better satisfied by this? For the
> Windows platform, there is rubyscript2exe, for the others, there are
> rakefiles, gems,... I don't say these work perfectly, but they are on
> the right path for making installing packages painless, aren't they?
>
> And yet there are no such huge packages for which the compression gained
> by zipping would be a major benefit. Or...?
You're probably right. Gem is far more convenient than downloding a zip
and placing it somewhere and it does use compressed files during
transportation AFAIK. IMHO the major advantage would not be compression
but bundling of several files into a single physical entity. But, yes, I
guess gems do that better.
Kind regards
robert