Distribution & General Questions

[Anthony Buck]

Hi,

  I was just wondering if you could confirm a couple of things for
me. I think that the framework has great potential but there are a
couple of items which have always ended up causing issues with
previous attempts at similar setups; size, completeness and ease of
distribution being the main contenders.

- Am I correct in thinking that apps developed are distributed as
such: a platform dependent executable which includes application code,
a ruby distribution, a selection of gems and a copy of webkit?
- Once a deployed application is downloaded by an end user is there
any _requirement_ for the system to go back online to retrieve
additional components (gems etc?)
- Are there any pre-requisites in the form of libraries / components
which are required by the system to be available on the end users
machine?
- What is the approximate minimum size for a distributed app
(obviously ignoring application specific code)
- Do the included webkit implementations expose css3 to hardware acceleration?

Much appreciate the help!

Roja

[Alex MacCaw]

On Jun 11, 10:11 am, Anthony Buck <r...@arbia.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I was just wondering if you could confirm a couple of things for
> me. I think that the framework has great potential but there are a
> couple of items which have always ended up causing issues with
> previous attempts at similar setups; size, completeness and ease of
> distribution being the main contenders.
>
> - Am I correct in thinking that apps developed are distributed as
> such: a platform dependent executable which includes application code,
> a ruby distribution, a selection of gems and a copy of webkit?

Yes. Ruby's statically compiled. WebKit is bundled, unless the
platform already has it (like OSX). Gems are bundled.

> - Once a deployed application is downloaded by an end user is there
> any _requirement_ for the system to go back online to retrieve
> additional components (gems etc?)

No

> - Are there any pre-requisites in the form of libraries / components
> which are required by the system to be available on the end users
> machine?

No.

> - What is the approximate minimum size for a distributed app
> (obviously ignoring application specific code)

Without WebKit, about 10mb. With, about 54mb.

> - Do the included webkit implementations expose css3 to hardware acceleration?

It depends on the platform implementation of WebKit. It does on OSX.