[ANN] RubyScript2Exe 0.4.0

[Erik Veenstra]

I just released RubyScript2Exe 0.4.0.

RubyScript2Exe transforms your Ruby script into a standalone,
compressed Windows, Linux or Mac OS X (Darwin) executable. You
can look at it as a "compiler". Not in the sense of a
source-code-to-byte-code compiler, but as a "collector", for it
collects all necessary files to run your script on an other
machine: the Ruby script, the Ruby interpreter and the Ruby
runtime library (stripped down for this script). Anyway, the
result is the same: a standalone executable (application.exe).
And that's what we want!

For more information and downloads:
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html

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Changes:

* Added better error detection and error reporting in EEE.

* Added --eee-info.

* Added RUBYSCRIPT2EXE_TEMPDIR.

* Fixed a bug concerning the variable command which wasn't
"declared" in one specific situation.

* Went back to FPC 1.9.8 (from 2.0.0) on Linux, because of some
access violations.

* Updated to FPC 1.9.8 (from 1.9.5) on Darwin.

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[Joel VanderWerf]

Erik,

I've been using rsubyscript2exe pretty heavily recently, on both linux
and windows, for distributing executables to teammates who shouldn't be
bothered with installing the ruby interpreter and libraries. So far, the
executables have included some distributed application components that
these people talk to using a C API. But I think I'll also replace this
complex API with a simple API and sockets to a rubyscript2exe-generated
executable, which will make life easier both for me and for the folks
who have to drive the API, and it will reduce the likelihood of
programmer error in using the complex API. I don't think I would have
tried this if it depended on everyone installing ruby.

Thanks!