From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T01:23:00+09:00
Subject: Re: New "Ruby for Windows" Installer

Hello Robert,

RH> Why the GTK stuff and not wxRuby? I have been out of the loop for a
RH> bit but I though wxRuby was going to be "the" toolkit?

I haven't seen a real wxruby application now and the website still
says "It's not quite suitable for production use yet" while Ruby GTK
is used a lot and stable.

Also WxRuby is a simple installable gem (only one so/dll file) while
GTK is much harder to install and to get all the DLL's. Also with GTK
you can have some trouble with the environment variables and the XML
parser if you install it just as described (xmlparse.dll + xmltok.dll
needs to be in the directory of ruby.exe and NOT in the gtk/bin
directory). It's not a problem, but for beginner it take a little time and
why shouldn't this be solved by the installer writer?

As i said my opinion is that easy installable gems should not belong
to core installer while everything that is a little bit more complicated
to setup (and used a lot) should.

RH> Shouldn't these be reversed version wise:

RH>     SQLite 2       3.3.13
RH>     SQLite 3       2.8.17

Yes, i will fix that.


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