From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-06-17T08:14:03+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Installer for Ruby 1.8.7?

On Jun 16, 3:56 pm, Andreas Warberg <andreas.warb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When do you expect to release a one-click installer for ruby 1.8.7 for
> the Windows platform? Currently (athttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/) there is still just a one-click
> installer for the old version 1.8.6.
>
> You've supplied a binary version of 1.8.7 for Windows, however it
> appears to suffer from the same missing dlls (readline.dll, zlib.dll,
> ..) errors I previously described while testing ruby 1.9.0 on Windows
> (http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/154713).
>
> I'm eager to migrate to the new version, however I don't want to commit
> to new language features in my codes if installation on Windows is a
> hazzle as it obviously will be without the one-click installer.
> I might be able to set it up properly on my development machine, however
> installation for users and general deployment of the interpreter itself
> *must* be a pain-free process (ie. one-click installation).
>
> I hope you will update the one-click installer soon. Ruby is a great
> language and Windows should not be left behind as a second class
> platform for ruby.
>

We appreciate your interest in the language, however, 1.8.7 proven to
be more complex for us since we are migrating One-Click installer from
VC6 to MinGW compiler, which will provide another series of advantages
for our point of view.

The choose to stick to 1.8.6 was a decision made based on several back-
port problems 1.8.7 showed and I couldn't managed get enough free time
to confirm if those got fixed in the final release of it.

Right now you can: Install 1.8.6-26 of One-Click and unpack the 1.8.7
binary on top, which will work most of the cases.

The other is follow up the progress of development with MinGW in the
rubyinstaller-devel mailing list:

http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=167

We can't promise a release date since the change of compiler exposes
other caveats of the solution and platform.

You can find more datails in my blog posts:

http://blog.mmediasys.com/

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena