From: Paul Date: 2006-01-19T13:44:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby One-click Installer and ruby 18.4. Austin Ziegler wrote: > 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 Personally I find your answer arrogant in all possible ways. If a person comes here for the first time and DOESN'T know to look elsewhere first, HOW THE HELL WOULD HE KNOW TO LOOK ELSWHERE FIRST! Noobs need answers, not intellectual brutism! The Ruby community is supposedly known as 'friendly', well you shot that all to shit Austin! I don't care what your excuse is. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.