From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-04-20T22:20:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.1-12

What you surmise is very likely to be precisely what is happening.

Curt

Stephan K�mper wrote:
>
> Linus Sellberg wrote:
> > John W. Kennedy wrote:
> >
> >> Linus Sellberg wrote:
> >>
> >>> It works if you delete the .bat's and run rdoc -f ri in the correct
> >>> directory. Istalling the latest version broke ri for me until I
> >>> remembered to remove the bat :)
> >>
> >> Well you can't _just_ remove the *.bat files.  You have to rename
> >> the corresponding files *.rb, too.
> >
> >
> > No, I didn't have to rename any .rb files. They worked with no
> > modification for me.
>
> Well I changed the content for those files, so as to match where
> rdoc.rb, ri.rb and ruby itself are located on my machine.
>
> My guess about whats wrong with the installer, is the way these files
> are generated (or tailored). In the more recent versions there were some
> strange path names hardwired into the .rb and .bat files. Paths that
> certainly don't exist on my PC.
> I imagine that things were working some thing like this:
> - Template file were packed in the installer with some kind
>    of mark up (XML tags or %%REPLACE_ME_WITH_A_VALUE%% varialbles or
>    whatever)
> - During installation the installer replaced these tags,
>    with the concrete value(s)...
>    Note that the 'root directory' into wich all the files are
>    copied is known as late as install time (the user might decide
>    to have Ruby installed into some obscure non-standard place, or
>    wants to install more than one version side by side)
> - ...and copies the tailored files to their target directory
>
> Now, if for any reason these place holders were replaced by
> concrete values in the template files, any tailoring would be
> lost of course.
>
> As the sources of the installer are available at rubyforge (as I
> recall), I might have a look into this later this week.
>
> Happy rubying (anyway)
>
> Stephan
>
> Now, you can give a path to where Ruby shall be installed, so _if_ the
> absolute path information of those *.rb and *.bat files _is_ neccessary,
> the installer will have to set up those paths during install time.
> So what I think might has happened, is that at some point in time the
> variable name tags (something like %%RUBY_ROOT%% or some kind of XML tag
> or whatever...) got lost (replaced by some concrete path) in the sources
> from which the 'real' programs were generated.
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