[ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.1-13 final

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

Three things don’t seem right…

Sorry for the delay in responding, this got buried in my inbox and I only
just noticed it.

  1. The doc/dl/dl.txt is missing. It was in an earlier 1.8.1 installer.

I’m not sure why this is, but I’ll look into it.

  1. The Yaml lib seems to be out of date, compared with recent 1.8.1
    tarballs. In the latter, symbols are serialized in the new way:

That’s because this wasn’t built with the most recent 1.8.1 tarball, it was
built using the official 1.8.1 release tarball.

  1. Yaml crashes with this hash:

D:>ruby -v -r yaml -e ‘y({:foo=>:bar})’
File creation error

Do you have write access the current directory? This might be a question for
the YAML project.

Curt

Curt Hibbs wrote:

  1. The Yaml lib seems to be out of date, compared with recent 1.8.1
    tarballs. In the latter, symbols are serialized in the new way:

That’s because this wasn’t built with the most recent 1.8.1 tarball, it was
built using the official 1.8.1 release tarball.

Sorry, I misunderstood the intent of the windows installer. It’s sync-ed
with the release, not the bleeding edge code, for good reasons, probably.

Curt Hibbs wrote:

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

  1. Yaml crashes with this hash:

D:>ruby -v -r yaml -e ‘y({:foo=>:bar})’
File creation error

Do you have write access the current directory? This might be a question for
the YAML project.

Argh, argh, argh. I used single quotes in cmd.exe. I think the > char
was trying to redirect output. It’s fine with double quotes.