From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-11-27T10:50:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Interesting ruby bootstrap experience on Windows

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:22:15 -0800 (PST), Luis Lavena wrote:

>> Problem #2: I remembered reading here that the one-click installer was
>> outdated, so I figured I'd just download the base install and build it up
>> myself.
>>
> 
> Not true, you should have done a google search before:
> 
> One-Click installer, 1.8.6-26 Release Candidate 2 (2007-10-29) -- not
> so old:
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

I saw that, but I think I was fooled by the 1.8.6-26 moniker, which (of
course!) must be older than p111...

I can understand why you can't just use the Ruby version (the OCI includes
things other than just Ruby), but in that case, it would probably better to
pick an entirely different version number that can't be confused.  This is
release 26, so I'd suggest just calling it that - One Click Installer
Release 26.  Or, well, anything BUT 1.8.6-26.

>> So... since Ruby's a community effort, what can I do to help solve problems
>> 1-5, other than posting this for Google to index?
>>
> 
> One-Click installer maybe? or maybe you can do it yourself with mingw?
> Anyway the problems you list require you some compilation, since ruby-
> zlib extension that fix the whole zlib problems need a compiler.

Well, but I ended up solving it without having to compile anything; I just
needed to figure out what pieces I needed and where I could find them.

What can I do to:

1. Help update the ruby-lang site to show the mirrors again,
2. Ditto to get the current Ruby binary up there, or at least linked up
there,
3. Ditto for zlib


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