From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T04:29:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet another Windows installer

On Mar 16, 2:12 pm, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> (IMHO, it might be a great idea to switch to a more recent version of
> Visual C all together, considering that the Express Edition is free, and
> can produce non-/NET code, but that's just my opinion).
>

Jumping late on this thread (been away in vacation trip).

Switching to VC8/VC9 or even VC7 requires recompilation of
dependencies to use the same CRT DLL. Search the list for posts about
this.

Been raised before, tried several times, and is impossible to
accomplish without loosing your brain in the process.

I think I will move the MinGW+MSYS building process one step further
and use the better Windows alternatives than traditional dependencies
(like win_iconv that _why commented previously).

You're welcome to join us at One-Click Installer Developement List
(http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubyinstaller-devel).

Regarding NSIS, I'll prefer move to MSI (Microsoft Installer) to
provide patches instead of full releases in the future.

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena