From: Tom Allison Date: 2006-09-15T19:49:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Using RubyInline for Optimization Tim Pease wrote: > 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 > The "average" user might not care about InLine Ruby as much as you do... I have a lot more to learn before I need InLine and by then it might be worth DIY to get there.