From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-10-20T14:01:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5699] Re: InstallShield version for Ruby soon...

Michael Lam <wy2lam@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> Hey, why use InstallShield, if you can use InnoSetup, which is free?
> It is used by the Mingw32 project as well.  I tried it and it's script is a
> breeze to write.

We thought long and hard about this.

In the end, we decided that one of the things that's important is that
Ruby should look like a "real" application; that is it should not be
surprising when people install it.

Folks are used to the look and feel of InstallShield, and we felt that 
was important enough to shell out the $250 or whatever.

We might well be wrong about this, but it's one of those decisions
where it's safer to be wrong by using it than wrong by not using it.


Regards


Dave