From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-08-04T22:08:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14 **RC7**

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
>
> At Sat, 31 Jul 2004 04:52:49 +0900,
> Curt Hibbs wrote in [ruby-talk:107933]:
> > Ok, ok... I know I said no more releases until
> > 1.8.2 final, but Matz just released 1.8.2
> > preview2 so I thought I would get an installer
> > out that includes this before I go on my vacation
> > tomorrow. There were no other changes since rc6 Enjoy!
>
> Aren't you going to change the points which I wrote in
> [ruby-talk:105550] and [ruby-talk:106176]?
>
> * environment variables TCL_LIBRARY and RUBY_{TCL,TK}_DLL are
>   set.
>
> * duplicated files.
>
> --
> Nobu Nakada

I wanted to make these changes, but when I started to make the changes, it
wasn't clear precisely what I was supposed to do. At that time I sent you a
private email (to nobu.nokada@softhome.net) listing what I thought should be
done and asking if that was correct, but I never got a response before I had
to leave for my vacation.

Below is what I sent you (please let me know if this is correct).

Thank you,
Curt

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt@curthibbs.us]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:47 PM
To: nobu.nokada@softhome.net
Cc: Curt Hibbs
Subject: Corrections for TCL/TK


nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> At Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:06:36 +0900,
> Curt Hibbs wrote in [ruby-talk:105566]:
> > > No, eban says those environment variables are not need at all.
> > > RubyInstaller should just set PATH, but not TCL_LIBRARY.  And
> > > RUBY_{TCL,TK}_DLL are used only if tcltklib is compiled with
> > > --enable-tcltk_stubs, but RubyInstaller doesn't.
> >
> > Good, I like that even better! I will change the installer to not set
> > TCL_LIBRARY.
>
> Correction: It couldn't find tk.tcl file when it just is not
> set.  It worked by moving tcl/lib/* to lib.
>
> Another issue, there are identical files under samples/sample
> and doc/Tcl/Tk-1.8.1/sample, except for several files only in
> the former.  Instead, *.{rb,so,lib} underneath lib are
> superfluous, since they exist also under lib/ruby/1.8 and never
> be used.

I am making changes to the ruby installer build in preparation for matz'
1.8.2 preview1, and I want to make sure that I correctly understand what you
have said needs to be done to fix TCL/TK in the ruby installer. This is
particularly important since I do not know anything about TCL/TK myself and
I rely on others for this advice and eventual testing.

I think the easiest way to do this is to assume that my last release
candidate, ruby182-14_rc3.exe, has been installed in the default location
(c:\ruby), and I will then describe the changes I think need to be made
using absolute paths. I'm fairly certain that this is wrong, but this is
what I got determined from your emails:

DEL C:\ruby\lib\tcl*.*
DEL C:\ruby\lib\tk*.*

MOVE DIR TREE C:\ruby\tcl\lib\
           TO C:\ruby\lib

DO NOT SET VAR "TCL_LIBRARY"

Thank you for your help,
Curt