From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-08-28T10:40:36+09:00
Subject: RE: [long]Re: Ruby developers: help push RPKG development and usage forward!! (it is like CPAN.pm, only Ruby)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Massimiliano Mirra [mailto:list@NOSPAMchromatic-harp.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:20 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: [long]Re: Ruby developers: help push RPKG 
> development and usage forward!! (it is like CPAN.pm, only Ruby)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:12:22PM +0900, Pierre Baillet wrote:
> > As far as i'm concerned, i would love to use rpkg if it was 
> working on 
> > my win32 ruby without a hassle. But AFAIK, rpkg depends on 
> zlib which 
> > is not straightforward to get(/build) under win32 platforms 
> hence my 
> > suggestion.
> 
> I used zlib as, I gathered, it was going to end up in the 
> next standard distribution.  Can someone just make a 
> precompiled .dll available before then?  The alternative was 
> requiring the user to install a gzip executable.
> 

Andy just updated the Win32 installer and it includes zlib

http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ruby-install.html

-rich