From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-03-15T02:28:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet another Windows installer

Roger Pack wrote:
> Sounds like it might be useful for those that want a "smaller install" 
> (I would be one).
> You might want to consider joining the Ruby OCI (One Click Installer) 
> mailing list and bouncing your ideas off them.

Good point. And one which I didn't consider. D'oh.

> If you were able to add your package as an "option" next to the typical 
> OCI it would get WAY more publicity.  I know I would probably download 
> it.

It'd help, anyway.

> A couple of thoughts:
> 
> What about gettext and openssl packages?  Those are...vaguely useful. 
> And iconv?

I'll have to look into that, and see if they are included with the Ruby 
binary or not.

> You might be able to get a far smaller download if you don't include the 
> Rdoc stuff, maybe some other stuff.

Well, Ruby (just the binaries) weighs in at roughly 10 MB, and the 
documentation is well compressed (it being text and all ;).

I was thinking about slimming Ruby down, though.

> 
>> And while I'd love to compile Ruby, it's impossible for me to obtain a
>> VC6 compiler, so I'll simply grab the Ruby binary off of
>> garbagecollect.jp (same source as the One Click Installer), add the
>> needed support, and that's it, more or less.
> 
> If you wanted to live the edge you could compile it with mingw :)

That's a good idea, and I actually do have a MSYS/MinGW toolchain on 
this computer..

> If you try hard I'm sure you can find a VC6 compiler around.

At least not on MS's website (well, I could downgrade if I would shell 
out for a recent VS2005/8 version, but I'm unwilling to do so..)

- Phillip