From: c p r a s l e y at h o m e dot c o m <not@...> (Chris)
Date: 2002-01-20T06:00:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Vote for Windows Installer packages

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:26:31 GMT, Andrew Hunt <andy@toolshed.com> wrote in
comp.lang.ruby:

>I'm making up the latest Windows Installer version
>of Ruby, and I need your help.

Would someone PLEASE make a self-contained RubyWin that runs 100% in
user-space under NT?  I don't have Administrator access where I work, and
therefore can't install any software that modifies restricted areas of the
registry.  The rest of the users don't need/want Ruby, and the IM
department would never agree to install it anyway.  I would like to
(ideally) just unzip into a private directory and double-click to start
the IDE/Interpreter.

By "self contained", I mean that it should look for any configuration
information in a .INI file in the same directory as the interpreter, and
the association between scripts and interpreter should be accomplished
using "Open with..." and "Always use this program to open files of this
type".