From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-11-10T03:40:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC9 with RubyGems built-in

Lothar Scholz wrote:
>
> 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 don't have internet access.
>
> So i vote for having at least a good amout of batteries included.

I think you can have this both ways.

When you try to install a RubyGem, it first looks for it on your local
machine and if its not found it then looks at the remote repository.

You could easily create yourself a CD repository of the stuff you like to
install and let RubyGems install from there.

That being said, there will probably always be a certain core that is always
included (which would all the stuff that you cannot "uncheck" from he
install dialog).

Curt