From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-12-12T10:12:23+09:00
Subject: Re: iconv replacement for windows?

Stu ha scritto:

> 
> 
> personally im kinda sick of all the duplication.
> 
> i have iconv with my win32 GTK install (gaim),
> i have iconv with my apache2 install
> i have iconv with my php install
> i have iconv with cygwin
> i have iconv with DevCPP
> i have iconv with subversion
> i also have some inconv dlls in my windows\system32 which I dont
> know what app owns.
> 
> i dont mind having the world + kitchen sink in the 1click installer
> as long as I can checkbox it out and not break anything if I have
> iconv installed by something else already.
> 
> where is the line? if we add openssl are we going to add mysql just
> for kicks? or postgresql? how about a c compiler since some extensions
> require compilation??

just a thing: you can get a binary ruby for win32 withouth all the 
useful but not necessary stuff from here:
http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/