From: Tim Pease Date: 2006-09-12T07:33:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Using RubyInline for Optimization On 9/11/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Ryan Davis wrote: > > > > > On Sep 11, 2006, at 10:22 AM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Eric Hodel wrote: > >> > >> or campaign for an msys based ruby dist which would make this all go away > >> ;-) > > > > That would be ideal, but seems unlikely. Is there any progress on this front? > > maybe we should just make one? if it were me, i'd probably just compile > everything, zip it, and let people unpack it. a bat script to setup the > environment, associactions, etc. might be nice, but i'm a fan of keeping > stuff out of system space and letting people just point their env at it... > > what do you think? basically i'm thinking > > msys-ruby-1.0.0.tgz > > (unpack) > > cd c:\msys-ruby-1.0.0\ > > setup.bat # sets up env vars, file assoc, etc. > > > setup.bat, for that matter, need only configure %PATH and then spawn setup.rb. > > thoughts? > The command line is fine for a Ruby developer. For an "average" end user of some Ruby program, a one-click installer is essential on the Windows platform. Along those same lines, you'll also want to automagically install gem, win32 stuff, etc. -- all the good things on the windows platform that *NIX does not need (except for gem -- that's always good stuff). TwP