From: Gawnsoft <xlucid@...>
Date: 2003-08-31T13:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginning to use FxRuby - help, please

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:03:54 +0100, Gawnsoft  wrote (more or less):

>On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 14:34:38 -0500, Lyle Johnson wrote (more or less):
....
>>OK. You apparently have a an older, Cygwin-based installation of Ruby 
>>that is taking precedence over the Pragmatic Programmer's Ruby installer 
>>(which is based on Visual C++). This is obvious from the paths listed in 
>>Ruby's "$:" library path; it's showing "i386-cygwin" as the platform 
>>instead of "i586-mswin32".
>>
>>I'm not sure how you got into this situation, or what is the best way to 
>>fix it. If there is no entry in the "Add/Remove Programs" list for 
>>Windows, you may need to manually uninstall Ruby (i.e. delete the 
>>D:\Programs\Coding\Ruby directory completely) and then re-install using 
>>the Pragmatic Programmers' installer.
>
>Yes - it's (one of the) last of the Cygwin versions of the PragProg
>installers that I've been using. (1.6.4-2).
>
>Time to move up to MSVC technology at a guess, then!
>
>Perhaps a warning of oldest usable versions of the Windows
>installation could be placed in the readme.txt and the installation
>notes files.
>
>I'd write the update, but I'm not quite sure what the exact
>restriction is...
>
>Thanks again Lyle - I'll clear out the old install and get a new one
>and try again.

Of course - now that I realise that I'm on 1.6.4, I now also realise
the FxRuby downloads I got were labelled for 1.6.8 at time of
download...

Still - it would be good for this info to be in the readme/install
notes too...


Cheers, 
   Euan
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