[MacRuby-devel] smaller macruby apps?

[Gary Weaver]

Looks like Isaac already added this option to HotCocoa:
http://github.com/richkilmer/hotcocoa/issues#issue/7
http://github.com/isaac/hotcocoa/commit/3c3db96fa8b9228c2ef7b65a65122ff0a53142dc

(add "stdlib: false" to config/build.yml)

but looks like that hasn't been released yet (not in HotCocoa 0.5.1 from 
what I can tell)?

Is there possibility of a release for HotCocoa soon that might contain 
Isaac's fix?

Also saw a related ticket in MacRuby, not for HotCocoa but for embed 
target ( http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/361 ) that was fixed in 0.5, 
and it was mentioned that further improvements would be made in the near 
future to reduce the size of embedded macruby apps.

Are there plans to include improvements in embedded app size as part of 
MacRuby also for 0.6 (I don't know whether those would help HotCocoa app 
size or not in addition to Isaac's fix, but just curious)?

Thanks!
Gary


Gary Weaver wrote:
> In the MacRuby tutorial ( 
> http://www.macruby.org/documentation/tutorial.html ) there is a brief 
> section about Embedding MacRuby in Your Application, and when you use 
> HotCocoa's macrake deploy, it includes the framework also. However, 
> the smallest resulting app in MacRuby 0.5/HotCocoa 0.5.1 is roughly 
> 150MB in size, which is much, much larger than the average small 
> application on a Mac.
>
> Isaac Kearse noted a way to get around this in his post "Packaging A 
> HotCocoa Application" ( 
> http://isaac.kearse.co.nz/2010/02/01/packaging-hotcocoa/ ). I was just 
> thinking, it would be nice if the same or similar method could be 
> added to HotCocoa's deploy and/or possibly documented in the MacRuby 
> tutorial as an alternative?
>
> Thanks!
> Gary
>
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