From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T17:10:26+09:00
Subject: Re: why there's no ruby 1.8.4 for win-one-click-installer?

On 12/29/05, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> > Sung Soo Kim wrote:
> > > It might not be too difficult to include options of including or excluding
> > > extensions in the installer, even though I love the previous installer. ;)
> >
> >
> > Examples of how to do this are welcome.
> >
>
> Basically the various extensions need to be split out into named
> SubSections in the ruby.nsi file, and the 'components' page should be
> flagged for display.
> If it would help, I can make these changes and submit a patch against the trunk.
>
> I maintain an NSI-based installer that does a lot of conditional work,
> so I'm comfortable with the syntax.
>
> --Wilson.

I already do this for many/most of the extensions, but doing so
actually increases the work to prepare a new release, and does not
reduce it. the work required is not in the NSIS installer script, it
is in properly builging, including, and testing the extensions.

And to Stephen: I have been (and will continue) to cut back on
included extensions as RubyGems continues to pick up the slack.

Curt