From: rerwig@... Date: 2001-01-26T15:40:03+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:9912] Re: Ruby 162 installer available In article , Andy@Toolshed.Com wrote: > > I am seeing these reports of many problems with the RubyWin > executable -- I've dropped a note to the maintainer, but > I guess that he's out of town or bust just at the moment. > > Do you think we should keep RubyWin in the Windows distribution? > I would hate to scare off new users with a face-full of bugs > right out of the gate. Well, nobody will gain from an "almost" working installation. For me RubyWin was certainly a trigger to pick-up Ruby again after some time. It gave me a feel of maturity. As a newby myself, I would say either remove it for now and/or make a honest statement about it. We all know it certainly will be fixed in the near future, but at present everybody must be aware of it. > > As far as the installer itself goes, I will look into problems > when using spaces in the target directory path -- in the meantime, > stick to c:\ruby :-) > > /\ndy > Well, I think we all can live with that for now: as long as everybody is aware of the existence of this "feature". But, thats where this newsgroup is for, isn't it? Ruud Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/