Shoes

Ah, nice to see Shoes getting some extra exposure. The latest developments giving us the possibility to actually package a Shoes app as an EXE or DMG is quite essential. “Deploying” a Shoes app was rather cumbersome before: you had to make sure (the correct version of) Shoes was installed, pass the script, directory or shy package to the user. And even then you weren’t sure that double clicking the script would actually run it with Shoes - if the user had Ruby installed, you’d have a problem (potentially).

But with the advent of native packaging this becomes a thing of the past. The packaging itself is a clever hack (on both platforms) and _why’s working on support for Linux too.

So it might be time to start opening up Twingle after all. Although we’ll have to wait for Twitter IM to return, because it’s quite a useless app without it.
And it’s nice to see your comment featured on Scott Hanselman’s site.