From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-06-12T07:10:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Any plans for a Ruby 1.9.1 One-Click Installer?

On Jun 11, 1:35 am, Benjamin L. Russell <DekuDekup...@Yahoo.com>
wrote:
> [..]
>
> I just read the sites referenced by both links, but although the site
> referenced by the second one was entitled "ruby 1.9 one click
> installer," it actually seemed to be nothing more than instructions
> for manually unzipping the {1.8.6,1.9}.7z file and the devkit.
> Therefore, if I follow those instructions, I am likely still to be
> missing the following components (all found in the 1.8.6 One-Click
> Installer):
>
> 1) An uninstaller
>
> 2) Start Menu/Desktop logos/icons
>
> 3) Bundled Ruby documentation
>
> 4) Bundled Ruby Gems
>
> 5) Bundled fxri - Interactive Ruby Help & Console
>
> 6) Bundled SciTE
>

Sorry to be negative, but all the above points has been covered in
that post and previous ones about the missing or different features.

The packages are up to date, but lack installers since there LOT OF
THINGS to be fixed prior a mass release.

> I already unzipped ruby-1.9.1-p0-i386-mswin32.zip several months ago,
> but was disappointed by the lack of the above.  The only component
> that the instructions add to what I already have is the devkit.

mswin32 builds downloaded from ruby-lang must follow gargabecollect
instructions, please Google for that and you will find those.

Let's make things clear: current One-Click Installer is built around
mswin32 builds downloaded from the same place, plus it downloads and
package all the things that you manually need to get if you download
the updated zip files.

I've tried to get the build instructions used by the garbagecollect
builders without luck. build One-Click Installer is a tedious task and
testing all the bundled component is even more.

The lack of the documentation as you mention is the lack of user
contributing to help built it. Ruby itself should be complicted to
use, you unpack and put it in the PATH, that's it.

No gems or packages are bundled with it, since we are trying to put it
on diet and make it more easy to release updates.

> Does this mean that the only way to have a 1.9.1 version equivalent to
> the Ruby 1.8.6 One-Click Installer for Windows is to follow the
> instructions at the site referenced by first link (entitled
> "RubyInstaller - State of One-Click") and perform the following steps
> (essentially building and debugging one mostly from scratch)?
>

No, you could grab the binaries, unpack them, add to your PATH and on
newer versions update them.

Installers will be created, but are not top priority. Top priority is
make Ruby itself work, which is complicated since lot of tests are
failing on Windows.

Build from scratch is nothing different than what Linux or OSX users
did in the past.

Patches to the whole process, including documentation are welcome.

--
Luis Lavena