Implement Installer for Shoes.{exe,app,sh}

[pjfitzgibbons]

This will be some form of build for Shoes Installer (a self-extracting zip/exe, DMG, Install4J, or other).

This installer will (probably) be only able to be run by Shoes Developers (this github codebase). This installer would be targeted toward public availability on the "Downloads" page of http://shoesrb.com

[therod]

I could work on installers for both Windows and OS X. Let me see what I can do...

[davorb]

Are we planning on having the installer include a JRE and JRuby as well?

@therod Awesome!

[PragTob]

I think so, at least with/without JRE should be an option imo.

For ruby devs we want to have gem install shoes[4]

[wasnotrice]

Let's try to get a clearer idea of what this issue is about. I thought it was about packaging Shoes.{app,exe,sh}, which is what most end users would download and double-click to package/run their Shoes apps. Is that what you all are thinking? @pjfitzgibbons ???

[PragTob]

As I understand this issue it is the installer for shoes - so what you download from the website in order to get started with shoes. The installer should be able to come with all dependencies - jruby included. I believe that #124 is about implementing the packager.

[pjfitzgibbons]

@PragTob, @wasnotrice Yes, in this ticket I expected us to research and implement the end-user "download and install" part of the Shoes lifecycle. You are right, #124 is for the packaging of this download. I am not yet sure if #124 also satisfies the "self-packaging" part of the lifecycle (building a runnable .shy?)

[PragTob]

Well we could discuss that over there and if we feel like it open another ticket... :-)