From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-07-03T08:23:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Registry Entries [was  [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14 Release Candidate]

Lothar Scholz wrote:
>
> 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.

This sounds reasonable to me, and it doesn't look like anyone else (besides
me in wxRuby) is using these registry entries, so I don't have to worry
about breaking things for anyone else.

Curt