From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-07-22T21:36:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14_RC5 (from Ruby 1.8.2 preview1)

David Espada wrote:
>
> El mi�rcoles 21 de julio, Curt Hibbs escribi�:
> > Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
> > candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
> > preview1.
>
>  Do it includes ruby-postgres precompiled?
>
>  If it doesn't, which reason for not including?

No, ruby-postgres is not included, so you would have to install it yourself.

A public debate over what should or should not be included has occurred
several times in the past. As you might expect everyone has their own
favorites. I'm sure that a very good case could be made for each possible
inclusion, but it is simply not practical to include too many things, and
its not possible satisfy everyone.

The way I want to address this problem is to include RubyGems in the
installer, and then encourage package authors to release their packages in
RubyGems format. Then getting ruby-postgres installed on your system would
be as simple as running the command "gem install ruby-postgres".

Up until last week I was going to wait until a GUI interface to RubyGems was
available, but that is probably too far off. So, a couple days ago I started
a discussion with the RubyGems developers on whether or not I should include
RubyGems in this 182-14 release. If the answer turns out to be yes, then I
expect to have in 182-14 RC6.

Curt