From: andy@... (Andrew Hunt) Date: 2000-10-21T09:40:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:5725] Re: InstallShield version for Ruby soon... On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:32:47 GMT, wrote: > > 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. One click will be it. My plan is to make several different packages, one of which will be the very simple one-click-gets-it-all. At a minimum, I'd like to be able to support all the Windows features we mention in the book including the Tcl/Tk interface, win32ole, etc. That way the novice user can get up and running with a minimum of fuss. From there, they are welcome to download the rest on their own - GTK, Corba/Oracle/whatever. > Here's looking forward to Beta testing... Careful what you wish for :-) /\ndy -- Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC. Innovative Object-Oriented Software Development web: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com email: andy@pragmaticprogrammer.com -- Books by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas: "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Addison-Wesley 2000) "Programming Ruby" (Addison-Wesley 2001) --