Re: dsktool.rb and Ruby Questions

[jonnosan <jonnosan@gmail.com>]

On Dec 5, 12:18 pm, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
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> On Dec 4, 11:05 pm, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:
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> >It looks like in the dsktool module build for this version, I haven't
> >specified the dependancy on the png module, so it didn't get automatically
> >installed when you did the 'gem install dsktool-0.4.2.gem' (unfortunately
> >this didn't show up in my own tests of the module build, since I do have
> >the png module installed on the machines i tested this build out on).
>
> Will you be including this module as part of the distribution or is this up
> to the user to find and install in addition to all these other thousands of
> files?
>
> Bill

Bill,

If I'd got the build instructions correct, then the ruby runtime would
have automatically detected the dependancy and downloaded and
installed it when you did the 'gem install dsktool' command. I will
probably do a new build that fixes the dependancy up. That would
probably be the last dsktool release though, as I've started working
on a new ruby library (called ripxplore) that covers file systems for
more platformas than just the Apple (currently C64, 8 bit TRS-80, 8
bit Atari, TI-99/4a) however that new library is read-only. (the
primary use case for it is 'peekbot - http://peekbot.jamtronix.com/
which is a website that lets you browseonline disk archives)