From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-11-10T04:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC9 with RubyGems built-in

Bradley, Todd wrote:
>
> > The reason for including FreeRIDE is because it helps
> > newcomers (especially those that are IDE centric). Its both
> > comforting and useful to have that source-code navigation
> > pane that lets you see and navigate a file by
> > module/class/method. And many people prefer to have an
> > integrated GUI debugger. Of course, there are others who
> > appreciate these features as well (for those that prefer just
> > an editor, there is SciTE).
>
> As one of the "newcomers" you speak of, I have to
> agree with you.  I'm learning Ruby on Windows.  Since
> Windows is generally inferior to Unix for code develop-
> ment, I really appreciate having both SciTE and FreeRIDE.
> I've been using SciTE exclusively once I started finding
> disturbing limitations in FreeRIDE.

I'd really like to know more about the limitations that moved you off of
FreeRIDE. Some of them may have been fixed in FreeRIDE 0.8.0 (which is *not*
in the installer -- its at 0.7.0) and some may be on the ToDo list. But most
importantly, I would like to get anything else onto FreeRIDE's bug-list or
feature-request list.

> Thanks for making the one-click Windows installer, and
> thanks for including SciTE with it.  It's made my own
> adoption of Ruby that much easier.

That's really gratifying to hear! Thanks.

Amazingly (to me anyway), the One-Click Installer for Windows has averaged
nearly 150 downloads a day for  most of this year, and I often wonder who is
using, and how its working out. Of course, I always hear about the problems,
but its nice to hear from happy campers as well!  :-)

Curt