[#11822] RCR: Input XML support in the base Ruby — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

15 messages 2001/03/01

[#11960] Not Ruby, for me, for the moment at least — "Michael Kreuzer" <mkreuzer@... (nospam)>

I wrote on this newsgroup last weekend about how I was considering using

11 messages 2001/03/04

[#12023] French RUG ? — "Jerome" <jeromg@...>

Hi fellow rubyers,

16 messages 2001/03/05

[#12103] disassembling and reassembling a hash — raja@... (Raja S.)

Given a hash, h1, will the following always hold?

20 messages 2001/03/06

[#12204] FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1>

Ruby is, indeed, a very well designed language.

64 messages 2001/03/07
[#12250] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> 2001/03/07

>>>>> "GK" == GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp> writes:

[#12284] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro) 2001/03/08

In message "[ruby-talk:12250] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"

[#12289] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/03/08

Hi,

[#12452] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro) 2001/03/12

In message "[ruby-talk:12289] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables"

[#12553] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2001/03/13

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

[#12329] Math package — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>

18 messages 2001/03/09

[#12330] Haskell goodies, RCR and challenge — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

Hi,

19 messages 2001/03/09
[#12374] Re: Haskell goodies, RCR and challenge — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/03/10

Hi,

[#12349] Can Ruby-GTK display Gif Png or Jpeg files? — Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>

Ruby-san:

20 messages 2001/03/09

[#12444] class variables — Max Ischenko <max@...>

14 messages 2001/03/12

[#12606] Order, chaos, and change requests :) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

17 messages 2001/03/14

[#12635] email address regexp — "David Fung" <dfung@...>

i would like to locate probable email addresses in a bunch of text files,

12 messages 2001/03/14

[#12646] police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1>

I just read this story on Slashdot

14 messages 2001/03/14
[#12651] Re: police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — pete@... (Pete Kernan) 2001/03/14

On 14 Mar 2001 11:46:35 -0800, Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> wrote:

[#12691] Re: police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@...> 2001/03/15

On Wednesday 14 March 2001 15:40, Pete Kernan wrote:

[#12709] [OFFTOPIC] Re: police warns you -- Perl is dangerous!! — Stephen White <spwhite@...> 2001/03/16

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, W. Kent Starr wrote:

[#12655] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: 'my' local variables — "Benjamin J. Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>

>===== Original Message From Leo Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> =====

18 messages 2001/03/14

[#12706] Library packaging — "Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@...>

I have a project that I'm working on that needs to live two different lives,

30 messages 2001/03/16

[#12840] Looking for a decent compression scheme — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

14 messages 2001/03/19

[#12895] differences between range and array — "Doug Edmunds" <dae_alt3@...>

This code comes from the online code examples for

16 messages 2001/03/20
[#12896] Re: differences between range and array — "Hee-Sob Park" <phasis@...> 2001/03/20

[#12899] Re: differences between range and array — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/03/20

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Hee-Sob Park wrote:

[#12960] TextBox ListBox — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

Attached is a little Spike that Chet and I are doing. It is a

13 messages 2001/03/20

[#12991] [ANN] Lapidary 0.2.0 — "Nathaniel Talbott" <ntalbott@...>

Well, here's my first major contribution to the Ruby world: Lapidary. It's a

16 messages 2001/03/20

[#13028] mkmf question — Luigi Ballabio <luigi.ballabio@...>

15 messages 2001/03/21

[#13185] Reading a file backwards — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...>

Hi all,

21 messages 2001/03/25
[#13197] Re: Reading a file backwards — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...> 2001/03/25

> Hi Dan,

[#13203] Re: Reading a file backwards — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/03/25

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Daniel Berger wrote:

[#13210] Re: Reading a file backwards — "Daniel Berger" <djberg96@...> 2001/03/25

"Mathieu Bouchard" <matju@sympatico.ca> wrote in message

[#13374] Passing an array to `exec'? — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>

I'd like to do the following:

15 messages 2001/03/31

[#13397] Multidimensional arrays and hashes? — Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>

Is it possible in ruby to make use of constructs that correspond to

14 messages 2001/03/31

[ruby-talk:12048] Windows Installer questions

From: andy@... (Andrew Hunt)
Date: 2001-03-05 18:10:02 UTC
List: ruby-talk #12048
Hi everyone.

I've been busily putting together a new version of the Windows
Installer for Ruby -- adding in Bernard's wonderful Windows Help files
and such -- but I've come across a problem that I'd like to get some
input on.

When I generate an installer, InstallShield assigns it a GUID
(globally unique identifier).  So, suppose I build a 1.6.2 release.
Now I go back and make a few updates -- fix a few bugs, add the
Windows help files, etc.

I've got two choices: I can keep the same GUID or generate a new one.

Keeping the same GUID:
	You download the new installer and run it - but surprise! The old
  installer's maintainence screen comes up instead.  It unfortunately
	offers a "modify" option that looks suspiciously like an upgrade.
  It isn't.  You have to uninstall the old one and reinstall the new
  one.

Generating a new GUID:
	You download the new installer and run it.  You can install it to a
  different location than the old version, and run both, but I can't allow 
  you to install the new version *on top of* the old version (then you'd
  have the same file registered by two different uninstalls :-)

These scenarios are complicated by the fact that an uninstall does not
remove files that it didn't install.  So if you load up your Ruby with
extensions in site_ruby, the uninstall won't remove them, the
installer will detect there is still stuff there, and complain.

I could write code specifically for an upgrade that would
automatically run the uninstall of the old, preserve the site_ruby
additions, and create world peace, but before I embarked on that
journey I thought I'd check with ya'll to see what the expectations
were.  This is the first thing I've ever done with InstallShield, so I 
there might also be an easier way to do it that I'm not aware of.

What sayest the crowd?

/\ndy

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