From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-02-21T16:39:07+09:00
Subject: Re: When will ruby181-11.exe be fixed?

John W. Kennedy wrote:
>
> Gavin Kistner wrote:
> > On Feb 20, 2004, at 4:54 PM, John W. Kennedy wrote:
> >> Are rdoc and ri going to be made usable anytime soon?
>
> > What about rdoc do you not find usable currently?
>
> > I've found a few bugs while working with it this week, but overall it
> > seems quite usable to me.
>
> The ruby181-11.exe version (I'm assuming that there is only one, dated
> January 28) ri and rdoc are completely broken.  I deleted, redownloaded,
> reinstalled, etc., with no better results, and reported it here and via
> email to pragmaticprogramer.com back on the 30th.  If I install
> ruby180-10.exe, they work; if I install ruby181-11, they don't.  I no
> longer remember all of what goes wrong, but at a guess, there's an
> installation step that isn't being finished, or even executed.
>
> To begin with, ri and rdoc are named "ri" and "rdoc", not "ri.rb" and
> "rdoc.rb", which they need to be on Windows, so they don't even execute.
>   But even if I rename them, they're still broken; if I remember
> rightly, ri seems to be missing its database, and rdoc has data-path
> problems.  ri.bat thinks Ruby's installed on drive T:.
>
> Perfectly normal XP Pro system, all current patches, either version of
> Ruby installed with all default options on drive C:.

Thank you for reporting these problems, they are in our bug list.

Release 181-11 was rushed out for those who wanted to get there hands on a
1.8.1 version as soon as possible. It does have a few problems, and we are
working on them as we have time from our otherwise busy lives.

Unfortunately, I can't give you a date, but I can assure you that it has not
been forgotten. We'll get there as quickly as we can.

Curt