From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2004-11-10T03:23:34+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC9 with RubyGems built-in Hello Curt, CH> James Britt wrote: >> >> Curt Hibbs wrote: >> >> > This release candidate of the One-Click Installer for >> > Windows adds RubyGems 0.8.1 and is built from the >> > latest preview release of Ruby (1.8.2 preview3). >> >> Sweet. Thanks! >> >> > Curt >> > >> > Changes Since 1.8.1-13: >> ... >> > - Added FreeRIDE 0.7.0 >> >> >> I know that FreeRIDE isn't new to this release, but in view of past >> comments on bandwidth, I've wondered why two editors (FreeRIDE and >> Scite) are included with the installer. >> >> Really, I've wondered why even *one* editor is included with the >> installer. In general, don't people tend to find an editor or IDE they >> like, and just use it, with updates and add-ins applied independent of >> any particular external software? >> >> As a data-point on this, I don't install Scite, and I don't use >> FreeRIDE. If there was an option to omit FreeRIDE during installation, >> I would leave that out, too. CH> You can omit FreeRIDE, just uncheck the box just like you did for SciTE. CH> The long-term plan is to omit *most* add-ons (probably including FreeRIDE) CH> and make them available via a GUI interface to RubyGems. We're not there CH> yet. I'm not sure if this is a good idea. I like to have many things included in the installer. I install ruby quite often and also on a lot of machines that dont have internet access. So i vote for having at least a good amout of batteries included. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's