From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T14:25:38+09:00
Subject: Re: A couple of issues with the new Windows installer


Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> I downloaded the ruby165-2.exe which uses the nullsoft installer instead
> of the InstallShield installer.  On WinNT it installed fine.  Under Win98
> I noticed that at the end it stopped- I could kind of see that it was
> asking a question about choosing an editor for Ruby files, but the text
> was half cutoff and there were no clickable buttons showing.  I remembered
> this question from the WinNT install, so I just hit enter and it finished
> OK - I'm not sure what editor it chose, though.  So on Win98 there seems
> to be a bit of a problem with that question about choosing an editor at
> the end of the install process.
> 

I installed this in Win98 a couple days ago and did not have this
problem.

> The other issue is that this installer is slllowwwwww!!!  Not a huge
> problem, but I could have built Ruby from source on Linux and done a make
> install and had a bit of time left over  in the time it took to install on
> Windows using this nullsoft installer.
>

yes, extracting and installing the files did take quite awhile.
But I still prefer this installer over the InstallShield version.

Thanks Andy and friends :-)


Guy N. Hurst