[FR-devel] Some FreeBASE changes in CVS

[Richard Kilmer]

All,

I changed a few things in FreeBASE based on a conversation I had with 
Curt.  Currently, FreeBASE only requires the third party libraries 
Log4r and yaml.  We were never really using the capabilities of log4r, 
so I just replaced it with our own, simple logger (that looks and has 
the same API that we were using in log4r).  You can set the log level 
to:

'disabled', 'error', 'info', 'debug'
or
0, 1, 2, 3

It logs the info the same format as before, but now log4r is no longer 
needed and can be removed from the redist directory.

The second thing I did was copy the current redist/yaml.rb into 
freebase and cvs add it there.  Since the yaml.rb is a single file that 
performs serialization/deserialization to yaml, I think it only makes 
sense to include it with FreeBASE, then FreeBASE can completely stand 
alone (no third party files needed, other than what is in the freebase 
directory.)

This is all leading to a desire to package FreeBASE as a library to be 
used generally for anyone that wants to build an app that is based on a 
plugin architecture.  FreeBASE is the first of many 'gems' that are 
coming from FreeRIDE, and I would like to get folks using it.  The more 
plugins that people write for FreeBASE, the more plugins available 
under FreeRIDE.  I want to work to build a distribution (with released 
files) of FreeBASE and announce it to the community.

So...comments?

-rich