[Instiki] [Instiki-devel] Instiki-OSX-Package: Ruby and Instiki prerequisites installer on OSX

[John Whitley]

Have you guys looked at Locomotive and the appropriate Locomotive  
Rails bundle for the Ruby/Rails support?  That should give fully  
encapsulated ruby support (i.e. it won't interfere with any existing  
system installations).  I wouldn't think it would be a big deal to  
use these components to create a single installer for Instiki on OS X.

FWIW, Rails doesn't have any deep dependency on readline; it just  
needs it for script/console to work.  It's nice to support, but it's  
also trivial to remove.  In script/console, where it builds up the  
irb command line, remove the completion require argument: "-r irb/ 
completion".

-- John

On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Matthias Tarasiewicz wrote:

> oleg kourapov wanted to create packages for instiki on osx for the
> current 0.11rc1 and also for the upcoming 0.12 version. unfortunately
> we ran into problems, since osx has ruby 1.8.2 packaged, but rails
> depends on ruby 1.8.4 and the readline library, as well as swig is
> broken on OSX Tiger.
>
> we are searching for a one-click-way to get all the prerequisites for
> instiki installed, without the need of installing apple XCODE-tools,
> which most of the "normal users" don't have installed for sure.
> the current idea is, to have a link to a ruby-osx-installer-package
> that includes all the needed libraries for instiki on osx. sadly there
> seems to be no such package existing.
> i opened i thread in the entropy.ch discussion forums, those guys had
> a ruby installer before but not since ruby 1.8.2 is packaged in osx.
>
> http://www.entropy.ch/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=10086#10086
>
> maybe someone on this list has a better idea or knows of such a
> package out there. we need to get "Chuckle… There Is No Step Three" or
> at least the 3 step-installation back on osx ;)
>
> -matthias
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