From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T05:00:49+09:00
Subject: Re: When will we see a One-click win32 installer for Ruby 1.9?

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:29:06 +0900, Abraham Vionas <abrahamv@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems from what I can find that compiling Ruby 1.9 on windows is a
> complicated endeavor, mostly because it's developed in a Unix(?)
> enviroment and so some things have to be modified to work correctly on
> windows. Regardless of whether or not this is the case, it is far more
> accessible (Ruby 1.9) if it's available in a Windows installer form. I
> see a couple different projects out there which are oriented towards
> providing Ruby Windows Binaries, but their *newest* development
> snapshots are from May 2004. That doesn't seem to me to probably be
> current with the current development snapshots of 1.9.
> 
> Anyway, it'd be nice to know if this is in the works, or if the
> project people are just planning to skip 1.9 and do 2.0 when it comes
> out... but 2.0 won't probably surface in any shape or form until... at
> least the middle of 2005 (if not the end?).

Well, the biggest issues is that 1.9 has not been officially released
yet. Thus, from day-to-day, the functionality of 1.9 may change, and
it would be problematic if people started using Ruby 1.9 on a common
basis, because it's unstable.

Ruby 1.8.2 will be released soon, I think, and will be updated at that point.

-austin
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