From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-08-06T02:26:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14 **RC7**

Thanks for the detailed instructions. I will make these changes as soon as I
can and put out RC8 so that people who use TCL/TK can have a chance to test
it.

Curt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:14 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14 **RC7**
>
>
> Hi,
>
> At Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:08:52 +0900,
> Curt Hibbs wrote in [ruby-talk:108303]:
> > 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.
>
> Unfortunately, I've not received it.
>
> > > > > 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*.*
>
> And lib/{*-tk.rb,tk,tkextlib,README}.  In other words, not
> install ext/tk there.
>
> > MOVE DIR TREE C:\ruby\tcl\lib\
> >            TO C:\ruby\lib
>
> Also tcl\include, and remove samples/Tcl/Tk-1.8.1/sample then
> move sample/sample to there.
>
> > DO NOT SET VAR "TCL_LIBRARY"
>
> And RUBY_TCL_DLL and RUBY_TK_DLL.
>
> Or, you could configure with --enable-tcltk_stubs option; I
> recommend this so that users can select other tcl/tk versions
> and locations by the above two variables.
>
> --
> Nobu Nakada
>
>
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