From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-01-04T10:23:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby One-click Installer and ruby 18.4. On 03/01/06, Stephen Waits wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: > > On 03/01/06, Dany Cayouette 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. This is, as I said, the fifth time in less than TWO WEEKS. I'm not Curt, but I'd be pretty sick of hearing the question by now. I've been working in parallel with Curt (not in contact with, but he is aware of what I'm doing) to make it so that everything can be built with the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. I've got nearly everything working with the base compile, and now I'm working on making sure that certain features work the way that they're supposed to given that Visual C++ 2005 has changed its compile mechanism (and making changes to the way that zlib is included, since zlib.org has some guidelines on shipping when compiled with anything other than MS VC++ 6). It almost ALWAYS takes a minimum of two weeks to get the one-click installer's first release candidate, because there's a *lot* there. Frankly, I was too short with Dany. But "ruby 1.8.4 one click installer" returns this as its first item: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/49793 It's not hard to find, and I think that it's polite of the asker to have at least done a little google searching first. (To compare: I have been trying to get OpenSSL compiled properly with VC++ 2005 since 26 December. I downloaded the latest snapshot for several days to see if a particular problem was fixed. I also worked with the OpenSSL CVS repository to review the changes from the OpenSSL 0.9.8 release. It wasn't until yesterday that I posted a question to openssl-dev to ask about the problem when I was certain that I had exhausted what I could do. Last night, I posted a patch to their build process to fix other problems that I was having. I'm not saying everyone should go to the lengths that I did, but I am saying that it's generally a good idea to at least do a little working.) -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca