From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T05:38:09+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005?

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On 7/19/06, Simon Kr=F6ger <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Sean O'Halpin wrote:
> > On 7/18/06, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
> >> A "Ruby devel. kit" (in a similar spirit as Instant
> >> Rails) including MSYS+MinGW is at least conceivable
> >
> > +1 for this idea - a one-click binary installer and a one-click
> > build-from-source-kit installer would be great.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sean
>
> I would *love* a one click installer that would include a
> minimal own compiler tool chain and ruby + all standard
> extensions as source code. It could build them (optimized
> for the actual hardware) during the installation process.
>
> All the gems that don't have a binary version would just
> work on such a system... well i guess I'm dreaming.
>
> How big would such a packet be?
>
> cheers
>
> Simon


Its more likely that the one-click installer would continue to be a binary
distribution (with binary extensions), but with an compiler toolchain that
allows users to build additional extensions from source or, even better,
provides a known target RubyGems packagers to create gems that require
compilation.

Curt

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