[ruby-core:24084] Re: [ANN] RubyInstaller: Building installers story and news

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Jon<[e-mail]> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Maybe a quick add to the "Quick FAQ" stating that although not all of the=
 things in the original OCI are integrated, the new MingW-based OCI include=
s the following prebuilt DLL's:
>
> gdbm3.dll
> libeay32.dll
> libiconv2.dll
> libssl32.dll
> pdcurses.dll
> zlib1.dll
>
> ...which makes things work well after initial installation. =A0No hunting=
 for and manually installing needed DLLs...Yea!
>

Well, I'm not a native english speaker, so if you can write something
down in the wiki page:

http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/

We all will really appreciate it.

> Also, maybe a quick note summarizing the features these DLLs enable in an=
 out-of-the-box install via the new OCI?
>

Well, besides that works out of the box? :D

>> Things to come soon:
>> - Offer an option to add Ruby to your PATH.
>> - Integrate Programming Ruby book (CHM)
>> - Integrate Ruby documentation in searchable way (CHM)
>
> Maybe an option to install devkit at the same time with a note in the ins=
taller reminding us to update fstab if needed...or...maybe fstab is templat=
ed to use info from the install dir chosen by the user.
>

The DevKit will be released as a gem. Is going to use the exact same
recipes that we internally use to download GCC and the tools to
install in your computer those and make them available to your Ruby
installations (which could be 1.8 AND 1.9).

More to come on this next weekend :D

> Thanks again for all your efforts!!!!
>

Thanks to everybody that keep caring about this.

Cheers,
--=20
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup=E9ry