From: aschneiderman@...
Date: 2000-10-20T21:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5708] Re: InstallShield version for Ruby soon...

In article <slrn8uc9t2.ka7.andy@workbench.toolshed.com>,
  Andy@Toolshed.Com wrote:
> Okay folks,
>
> I'm going to bite the bullet and buy a copy of InstallShield, so
> we can post an InstallShield version of the existing Windows .tgz
> distribution of Ruby. (Thanks to Arima Yasuhiro for showing us how!)
>
> Dave and I will be out at OOPSLA next week, but we should have this up
> sometime soon after we get back -- just in time for the flood of new
> Ruby users!

I'm really glad you're doing this.

When you set up the InstallShielf version, are you planning on including
everything a user needs to run cgywin version of Ruby, including perhaps
the Win32OLE dll?  Most people who are going to try the Win version of
Ruby will probably be coming from the worlds of Perl or Python.
Installing those languages is a snap; one click and you're good to go.
If it's at all possible to do the same for Ruby, you'd make Ruby
evangelization considerably easier.

Here's looking forward to Beta testing...

Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman
The National Journal


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