From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-22T14:51:32+09:00
Subject: Re: A couple of issues with the new Windows installer

In article <3C4CF6D6.E8E796F1@hurstlinks.com>,
Guy N. Hurst <gnhurst@hurstlinks.com> wrote:
>
>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.
>

I do too.  Primarily because I discovered that an extension .dll that I 
built couldn't be read from the Ruby 1.6.5 installshield version - it 
worked OK with the Ruby 1.6.5 nullsoft version... not sure why that is, 
but it's working now.

>Thanks Andy and friends :-)
>

Yes, thanks Andy.  

Phil