From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T20:53:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Installer for Windows: use of Win32OLE bug causes crash


"Jos Backus" <jos@catnook.com> wrote in message
news:20040513070756.GA72004@lizzy.catnook.com...
> On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:48:54PM +0900, Shashank Date wrote:
> > Yes, I was able to reproduce this also on Win XP (Home).
>
> Good news: I can no longer reproduce this using yesterday's CVS -HEAD. The
> problem also seems to have disappeared when using this snapshot (in case
you
> can't easily build from source).
>
>
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.9.0-20040402-i386-mswin32.zip
>
> Perhaps you can verify this result, that would be helpful. This would mean
> that it's not a win32ole issue but a Ruby problem that has recently been
> fixed. Hopefully whatever the fix is makes it into 1.8.2.

Good news indeed ! I will give that a try over the week-end.

I will request you to consider joining the Ruby Installer team. Your
experience in
trying to track down bugs and fix them on the Win32 platform is very
valuable and we
all will greatly benefit from it.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/

-- shanko