From: Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T00:26:04+09:00
Subject: Re: narray and the stdlib

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On 10/26/05, Ed Howland <ed.howland@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/05, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/26/05, Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, it looks like the one-click installer team is a bit
> > > inundated with inclusion requests.
> > > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=3D718&group_id=3D167&func=3Dbrowse
> > >
> >
> > Actually, it turns our that the one-click installer "team" has only
> *one*
> > active member... me! I'm trying change that and get some help, but that
> > hasn't happened yet.
> >
>
> Curt, is it possible/easy to remaster the One Click Installer? The
> idea would be sort of like remastering Knoppix CDs. For which there
> are Security ones, Game ones etc. And the instructions are pretty easy
> to do so you can
> create your own flavor. (Install knoppix, apt-get install somestuff,
> remaster, burn CD.)
>
> That way, anyone could create a customized One-Click-Installer for
> Windows themselves. Last night you sort of touched on this with the
> Instant-Rails package.


Yes and no -- depends on how you you wanted to do it.

If you actually wanted to create an installer, then you'd have to check out
the 1ci's source from CVS on RubyForge and build it yourself. Its a bit of =
a
pain to get set up, but once it is, doing the build is pretty much a breeze=
.

If you just wanted to resuse the binary and don't care about an installer,
then its pretty easy. The ruby directory tree is self contained, doesn't
require an environment settings, and doesn't care what directory its run
from. The only thing that contains absolute paths are a few *.bat and *.cmd
files in the ruby\bin directory that are convenient shortcuts for running
certain ruby programs. The installer updates these file with the correct
paths, and my Instant Rails manager does the same thing when it detects tha=
t
it is running from a new directory.

Curt

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