From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-07-03T00:13:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Registry Entries [was  [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14 Release Candidate]

Hello Curt,

CH> This is fine with me. When there are multiple versions installed, there also
CH> needs to be a pointer to the default installation (the one that is on the
CH> path). wxRuby currently uses this to decide where to install itself.

CH> Is there anyone out there (other than wxRuby) that is using the current
CH> registry schema?

CH> How's this look (as an example relative to
CH> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE"):

CH>   Ruby\RubyCore\default = "182-14"
CH>   Ruby\RubyCore\182-14\InstallPath = "c:\ruby"
CH>   Ruby\RubyCore\182-14\InstallDate = "June 30, 2004"
CH>   Ruby\RubyCore\182-14\Version = "1.8.2"
CH>   Ruby\RubyCore\182-14\Help\Main Ruby Documentation =
CH> "c:\ruby\ProgrammingRuby.chm"

I vote against it because it assumes that your installer is the only
one in the windows world. For example in the first month i shipped my
own ruby distribution with my IDE and maybe i will do this later again
when i target people at "download.com" or "winfiles.com" to try
another programming language. While the core should be the same, the
"site-lib" directory tree could be different.

So whats about:

Ruby\RubyCore\default = "1.8.2"
Ruby\RubyCore\1.8.2\default = "1.8.2\14pp"
Ruby\RubyCore\1.8.2\pp14\InstallPath = "c:\ruby"
Ruby\RubyCore\1.8.2\pp14\InstallDate = "June 30, 2004"
Ruby\RubyCore\1.8.2\pp14\Help\Main Ruby Documentation = "c:\ruby\ProgrammingRuby.chm"

"pp14" is a shortcut for "pragmatic programmers" or however you want
call it, maybe only 14 because this is the installer for the masses.

You see the problem in the python world where there is the
www.python.org  installer and then there exists also a few
"scientific" pythons and of course the one from ActiveState.

Think that my solution is a little bit more flexible, and its only a
few lines more for persons who use it/write it.

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