From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T11:27:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Project Name Changed to "One-Click Ruby Installer"

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
>
> I used darwinports to install Fox, FXRuby, and Freeride on OS X. Worked
> like a charm. The only caveat is that the installer only works with the
> darwinport version of ruby, so I had to install that, even though I had
> installed ruby already.  However, one nice thing about the darwinports
> ruby is that it configures readline for irb for you automatically
> (though I had gotten it setup for regular ruby already).
>
> Now I just need to get DBI and mysql-ruby setup. I think that's now a
> bit more complex since I installed mysql via fink.
>
> That said, I look forward to the OSX installer. I immensely appreciate
> the Windows one.
>
> Regards,
> Nick

Thanks for the worsd of encouragement. We have a number of issues to work
out still, but I too am looking forward to having the One-Click Ruby
Installer available on multiple platforms!

Now if we could just get someone to volunteer to do Gnome and KDE versions
for us... ;-)

Curt

> Richard Lyman wrote:
>
> >I can not believe it!!
> >
> >I _love_ this community!
> >
> >I'm trying to get Ruby to be used in Bioinformatics here at college,
> >but I can't since they need 'cross-platform' (yeah, they've gone with
> >Java), and the only thing 'stopping' me ( I haven't recommended it to
> >them) is that it's too tricky for me to get everything setup for OS
> >X!!
> >
> >Please tell me that FOX and FXRuby will be in the installer!!
> >
> >PLEASE!! :-)
> >
> >-Rich
> >
> >
> >On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 04:08:50 +0900, Chad Fowler
> <chadfowler@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 03:02:42 +0900, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>We've change the name of the project from "Ruby Installer for
> Windows" to
> >>>the "One-Click Ruby Installer" because we are branching out
> more platforms
> >>>that just Windows -- a version of the One-Click installer for
> OS X is under
> >>>active development.
> >>>
> >>>In addition, we'd like to create One-Click installers for
> Gnome and KDE (if
> >>>we can get someone to volunteer for the job).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Curt, thanks to you and to Andy before you (and the others who have
> >>helped and will) for this wonderful growing project.  It's a real
> >>service to the community.
> >>
> >>Chad
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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