From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T03:53:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing: A new Ruby Windows installer

The latest installer will probably be the last time there will be this
much lag. Curt decided to redesign the installer so that subsequent
releases will be much faster. That is why things took so long. Plus he
has been extremely busy.

I recently have been helping him and am now very familiar with the
installer as well as NSIS which the installer is written with. When
the next version of Ruby is released I'll be sure to help Curt if he
needs it to get the installer out quickly.

Ryan

On 5/23/06, Enterprise Astronaut <enterpriseastro@enterprise.ch> wrote:
>
> I understand projects like the Ruby Installer for Windows exists, but
> what I'm wondering is:
>
> Why not have AllInOneRuby with gems embedded into it call a gem that has
> the Ruby bits and a local copy of Ruby and then follow up with Gems.
> From there your home free, correct?  You could even just to get going
> have the AllInOneRuby installer simply do a wget and pull down the Ruby
> bits and put them into a folder and set the path.  Eventually it would
> seem though pulling down the actual Ruby bits in a gem is the "Ruby" way
> to do this.
>
> The Ruby Windows Installer seems to lag behind the general releases.  It
> would seem the senario I just described would be more up to date.  The
> Python guys have their installers down to s science now, it seems like
> Ruby is lagging a bit here (the Windows side of it anyway).
>
> Just shooting ideas around so don't shoot the messenger.
>
> - The Enterprise Astronaut