From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T11:04:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyforge really slow?

Phil Tomson wrote:
>
> In article <BD4A299C.10AA5%rich@infoether.com>,
> Richard Kilmer  <rich@infoether.com> wrote:
> >Well, folks downloaded the RubyInstaller 187 times over the last two days
> >(its not grown to 11MB)...definately our big fish.
>
> I noticed the growth when I downloaded it a couple of days ago.  I
> remember the old days when a Ruby download was under 2MB.
>
> Here's a crazy idea: What if the download page presented a menu of items
> you wanted included with your Ruby download?  Something like:
>
>   __ Tk
>   __ Fox
>   __ Gtk
>   __ FreeRide
>   __ YourFavoritePackageHere
>
> Maybe by default they're all selected yielding the 11MB download, but the
> user could deselect items they don't need thus resulting in a smaller
> download (usually you don't need both Tk and Fox, for example).

My plans for the One-Click Installer will address this issue. We are going
to cut the included extensions to the bare minimum, and then include the
not-yet-developed GUI RubyGems browser to let you pick and choose what
additional extensions you want to install. You could choose these extensions
at install time, or run the RubyGems browser at any later time to install
more extensions.

Curt