[MacRuby-devel] 3 Questions, One about language restriction, one about platform targeting and the final about the standard library.

[Laurent Sansonetti]

As Matt writes, the standard library only contains extra classes.  
Everything accessible without a #require is part of the core, which  
cannot be stripped down during the deployment phase (yet).

As of trunk (0.6), the stdlib files are in /Library/Frameworks/ 
MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.6/usr/lib/ruby. It's a mix of Ruby and C  
extension bundles. These are the files that will be removed.

HTH,
Laurent

On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:

> std libs are all the "extra" classes that you need to require in  
> your code like rexml, yaml, CGI etc...
>
> - Matt
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Anthony Buck <roja at arbia.co.uk> wrote:
> Thank you for such prompt response! I am surprised that the standard
> lib can be left out though! Is there any formal/informal list of what
> ruby considers "standard library"? Can we safely assume that most
> container classes are available for instance? Array, Hash etc? Am I
> right in assuming that what is left out is anything that warrants a
> "require" statement?
>
> Again, Thanks!
>
> Anthony
>
> On 4 February 2010 01:36, Anthony Buck <roja at arbia.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     I have a couple of questions which I have attempted to answer to
> > no-avail. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right
> > direction (Quite new to OS X development so my apologies if it is
> > mealy my incompetence that has lead me here.)
> >
> > 1)  I am looking into using MacRuby and am interested in it's  
> ability
> > to AOT compile ruby code down to an executable. I am wondering  
> though
> > whether this places a restriction on the code in any way? Is there a
> > subset of ruby which is supported or can i go ahead and perform all
> > the meta-magic i want and still have the code AOT compiled?
> >
> > 2)  I am also interested in targeting both 10.6 and 10.5 with any
> > applications developed (at 50%+ OS X share it is imposable to ignore
> > with any conscience.) I have looked at the deployment task shipped
> > with Mac Ruby and love the fact that I can have a simple .app to  
> pass
> > on to my users however, am i right in thinking that this .app will
> > only operate on 10.6 machines? If so is there any way to develop
> > either a combined or separate .app which is useful to users of 10.5?
> > Is this possible when the development system is 10.6?
> >
> > 3) I also read an article about how the developer of Stopwatch*
> > packaged said application without the "standard library." am I right
> > in thinking that this is the ruby standard library which was left
> > unpackaged? Wouldn't this render the application un-runnable?
> >
> > Any advice on any of the 3 questions is much appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Buck
> >
> >
> > * http://isaac.kearse.co.nz/2010/01/31/stopwatch/
> >
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