From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T10:19:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby One-click Installer and ruby 18.4.

I'm working in it. It should be sometime this month, but I can't say
exactly when.

Thanks for your patience,
Curt

On 1/3/06, Stephen Waits <steve@waits.net> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > On 03/01/06, Dany Cayouette <danyc@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 1.8.3.  Anyone heard of plans of One-click Installer plan to include
> >> 1.8.4 and any target release timeframe?
> >
> > Yes. Search for it. This is the fifth time that this has been asked.
> > The answer has not changed.
>
> Wow.  This is how I imagine comp.lang.lisp acts.  Just in my imagination
> though.
>
> Dany, the most recent thread was entitled "why there's no ruby 1.8.4 for
> win-one-click-installer?".  In that thread, Curt Hibbs, who maintains
> the OCI, mentioned that the installer is a bunch of work (rebuilding all
> extensions, testing, etc.), is not an intrinsic part of Ruby, and that
> it will take him some time to get caught up (he has a day job too).
> Several suggestions were passed back to Curt on how he might reduce that
> time (reducing complexity / removing extensions, automation of
> build-test-packaging, or even convincing a 3rd party, like ActiveState,
> to get involved).  Furthermore, Matz replied that there is always
> "ActiveScriptRuby" at http://arton.hp.infoseek.co.jp/index.html.
>
> In the end though, if you want the 1.8.4 OCI, you'll have to be patient.
>
> --Steve
>
>
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