[ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14_RC5 (from Ruby 1.8.2 preview1)

ruby-talk
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Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
preview1.

You can download this release candidate from:

  http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

You can check for reported problems (or report new problems) at:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167

What is the Ruby Installer for Windows?

···

---------------------------------------

The Ruby Installer for Windows is a "one-click", self-contained Windows
installer that contains the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular
extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting editor and execution
environment, and a Windows help file that contains the full text of the
book, "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide".

Release 1.8.2-14:
- This is a build of Ruby 1.8.2 preview1.
- Changed the layout of the Windows registry
  entries.
- Fixed a typo in a windows registry entry
  (bug 643).
- Upgraded Expat to version 1.95.7
- Upgraded Ruby-odbc to version 0.993
- Upgraded DBI to 0.23
- Upgraded FXRuby to version 1.0.29

-----------------------------------------
PS
  I know that I went from RC3 to RC5, skipping #4. It was a minor mistake on
my part... such is life! :slight_smile:

2

Curt,

   I have done absolutely no research, so feel free to respond by
telling me to do my research :wink: ...

   There's been a lot of talk lately about Oniguruma.

   How does it tie into the Windows Installer? Is it there - can we
use it? Is it the default? Can it just be 'installed' - or does
someone (not me, I don't know how to yet) have to compile it before it
can be installed?

   Is 'the standard regexp library problem' even a problem?

   Are there any other licensing 'problems' that come about from
what's in the One-click Installer?

Thanks a ton for any response you can give!
-Rich

···

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:37:58 +0900, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:

Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
preview1.

You can download this release candidate from:

  http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

You can check for reported problems (or report new problems) at:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167

What is the Ruby Installer for Windows?
---------------------------------------

The Ruby Installer for Windows is a "one-click", self-contained Windows
installer that contains the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular
extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting editor and execution
environment, and a Windows help file that contains the full text of the
book, "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide".

Release 1.8.2-14:
- This is a build of Ruby 1.8.2 preview1.
- Changed the layout of the Windows registry
  entries.
- Fixed a typo in a windows registry entry
  (bug 643).
- Upgraded Expat to version 1.95.7
- Upgraded Ruby-odbc to version 0.993
- Upgraded DBI to 0.23
- Upgraded FXRuby to version 1.0.29

-----------------------------------------
PS
  I know that I went from RC3 to RC5, skipping #4. It was a minor mistake on
my part... such is life! :slight_smile:

3

Do it includes ruby-postgres precompiled?

If it doesn't, which reason for not including?

Thanks.

               David

···

El miércoles 21 de julio, Curt Hibbs escribió:

Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
preview1.

4

Hi Curt,

Thanks for the package. I guess it's very convenient for Microsoft users.

Just a question... do you plan to provide Ruby/GTK2 some day? GTK2
works great on Windows and I believe it would be interesting to ship
Ruby bindings for it, since you already deliver FOX bindings.

(so there is no jalous :slight_smile:

Cheers,

···

--
Laurent

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:37:58 +0900, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:

Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
preview1.

You can download this release candidate from:

  http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

You can check for reported problems (or report new problems) at:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167

What is the Ruby Installer for Windows?
---------------------------------------

The Ruby Installer for Windows is a "one-click", self-contained Windows
installer that contains the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular
extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting editor and execution
environment, and a Windows help file that contains the full text of the
book, "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide".

Release 1.8.2-14:
- This is a build of Ruby 1.8.2 preview1.
- Changed the layout of the Windows registry
  entries.
- Fixed a typo in a windows registry entry
  (bug 643).
- Upgraded Expat to version 1.95.7
- Upgraded Ruby-odbc to version 0.993
- Upgraded DBI to 0.23
- Upgraded FXRuby to version 1.0.29

-----------------------------------------
PS
  I know that I went from RC3 to RC5, skipping #4. It was a minor mistake on
my part... such is life! :slight_smile:

5

Curt Hibbs schrieb:

Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
preview1.

Thanx for the intaller. Is there a special reason, why the windows package still comes with tk8.3 which in fact makes a lot of troubles (at least under win98)?

ERic.

6

[...]

Does it fix ri bug related to PAGER in WinMe [ruby-talk:103662]?

Wassallam,

-- Zakaria
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   http://zakaria.is-a-geek.org
   http://pemula.linux.or.id

···

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:37:58AM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:

Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
preview1.

You can download this release candidate from:

  http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

You can check for reported problems (or report new problems) at:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167

7

Hello,

Will the final version have the opengl bindings? I was so surprised
when I installed latest RC and opengl didn't come. Does opengl
bindings have any problem?

Bye, and thank you for the work.

···

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:37:58 +0900, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:

Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
preview1.

You can download this release candidate from:

  http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

You can check for reported problems (or report new problems) at:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167

What is the Ruby Installer for Windows?
---------------------------------------

The Ruby Installer for Windows is a "one-click", self-contained Windows
installer that contains the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular
extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting editor and execution
environment, and a Windows help file that contains the full text of the
book, "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide".

Release 1.8.2-14:
- This is a build of Ruby 1.8.2 preview1.
- Changed the layout of the Windows registry
  entries.
- Fixed a typo in a windows registry entry
  (bug 643).
- Upgraded Expat to version 1.95.7
- Upgraded Ruby-odbc to version 0.993
- Upgraded DBI to 0.23
- Upgraded FXRuby to version 1.0.29

-----------------------------------------
PS
  I know that I went from RC3 to RC5, skipping #4. It was a minor mistake on
my part... such is life! :slight_smile:

8

Hi,

Am I right that this package does not contain OpenSSL?

Regards,

Peter

9

This release candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows
was built from the recently released Ruby 1.8.2 preview1.
Unless serious problems are reported, this will probably
be the last release candidate until matz releases 1.8.2
final.

There were four changes since RC5:
- tab-completion in irb now works
   (thanks to _why for his help).
- The OpenGL support that was
   inadvertently left out of RC5
   is back in.
- Start menu shortcuts have been
   added to online documentation on
   ruby-doc.org.
- The "reboot" dialog message at the
   end of the installation has been
   removed to enable unattended
   installations using the command
   line arguments:
      /S /D=<install dir>

You can download this release candidate from:

  http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

You can check for reported problems (or report
new problems) at:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167

What is the Ruby Installer for Windows?

···

---------------------------------------

The Ruby Installer for Windows is a "one-click",
self-contained Windows installer that contains
the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular
extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting
editor and execution environment, and a Windows
help file that contains the full text of the
book, "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's
Guide".

Change Log for 1.8.2-14_RC6
---------------------------
- This is a build of Ruby 1.8.2 preview1.
- Corrected missing OpenGL support.
- Added Start Menu shortcuts to documentation
  on ruby-doc.org.
- Eliminated the installer dialog message that
  warned you might need to reboot your system.
  This allows for unattended installs using the
  command-line arguments:
      /S /D=<install dir>
- Changed the layout of the Windows registry
  entries.
- Fixed a typo in a windows registry entry
  (bug 643).
- Upgraded Expat to version 1.95.7
- Upgraded Ruby-odbc to version 0.993
- Upgraded DBI to 0.23
- Upgraded FXRuby to version 1.0.29

10

richard lyman wrote:

Curt,

   I have done absolutely no research, so feel free to respond by
telling me to do my research :wink: ...

   There's been a lot of talk lately about Oniguruma.

   How does it tie into the Windows Installer? Is it there - can we
use it? Is it the default? Can it just be 'installed' - or does
someone (not me, I don't know how to yet) have to compile it before it
can be installed?

No, Oniguruma is not in the Ruby Installer for Windows. The installer is
just a precompiled version of the standard ruby distribution, some extension
libraries (see the release notes), and the scite editor.

   Is 'the standard regexp library problem' even a problem?

   Are there any other licensing 'problems' that come about from
what's in the One-click Installer?

The licensing issues with the installer would identical to the issues you
would have if you built Ruby and the included extensions yourself. I have no
answer for you beyond that.

Thanks a ton for any response you can give!

Your welcome!
Curt

11

David Espada wrote:

> Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
> candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
> preview1.

Do it includes ruby-postgres precompiled?

If it doesn't, which reason for not including?

No, ruby-postgres is not included, so you would have to install it yourself.

A public debate over what should or should not be included has occurred
several times in the past. As you might expect everyone has their own
favorites. I'm sure that a very good case could be made for each possible
inclusion, but it is simply not practical to include too many things, and
its not possible satisfy everyone.

The way I want to address this problem is to include RubyGems in the
installer, and then encourage package authors to release their packages in
RubyGems format. Then getting ruby-postgres installed on your system would
be as simple as running the command "gem install ruby-postgres".

Up until last week I was going to wait until a GUI interface to RubyGems was
available, but that is probably too far off. So, a couple days ago I started
a discussion with the RubyGems developers on whether or not I should include
RubyGems in this 182-14 release. If the answer turns out to be yes, then I
expect to have in 182-14 RC6.

Curt

···

El miércoles 21 de julio, Curt Hibbs escribió:

12

on the lines of the hread, I think the best thing would be to package
up all the ruby-gnome2 stuff that works on windows in some gems, and
maybe provide a choice at install time something like cygwin does

···

il Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:25:10 +0900, Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@gmail.com> ha scritto::

Hi Curt,

Thanks for the package. I guess it's very convenient for Microsoft users.

Just a question... do you plan to provide Ruby/GTK2 some day? GTK2
works great on Windows and I believe it would be interesting to ship
Ruby bindings for it, since you already deliver FOX bindings.

(so there is no jalous :slight_smile:

13

Zakaria wrote:

> Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
> candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
> preview1.

> You can download this release candidate from:

> http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

> You can check for reported problems (or report new problems) at:

> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167

[...]

Does it fix ri bug related to PAGER in WinMe [ruby-talk:103662]?

I have fixed the general problem with how I was building the RI database in
the installer. But any bugs that may have existed in RI itself would be
fixed in the Ruby distribution. Perhaps you could test this and let us know.
If its still a problem, we could pass that on to Dave.

Curt

···

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:37:58AM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:

14

Javier Fontan wrote:

Hello,

Will the final version have the opengl bindings? I was so surprised
when I installed latest RC and opengl didn't come. Does opengl
bindings have any problem?

Bye, and thank you for the work.

Hmmm.... I think it should have been there. I'll have to look into what
happened. Thanks for the report.

Curt

15

I thnki you can try the openssl.so from usa netsumi:
http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/

with the older preview it seemed to work

···

il Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:25:10 +0200, "Peter C. Verhage" <usenet2@nospam.no-nonsense.org> ha scritto::

Hi,

Am I right that this package does not contain OpenSSL?

16

Peter C. Verhage wrote:

Hi,

Am I right that this package does not contain OpenSSL?

Yes, you are correct.

Curt

17

E.-R. Bruecklmeier wrote:

Curt Hibbs schrieb:
> Today Matz released the official preview1 for Ruby 1.8.2. This release
> candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows was built from this new
> preview1.

Thanx for the intaller. Is there a special reason, why the windows
package still comes with tk8.3 which in fact makes a lot of troubles (at
least under win98)?

No particular reason other than we haven't taken the time to update to a
newer version.

Curt

18

Ok, ok... I know I said no more releases until
1.8.2 final, but Matz just released 1.8.2
preview2 so I thought I would get an installer
out that includes this before I go on my vacation
tomorrow. There were no other changes since rc6 Enjoy!

Curt

You can download this release candidate from:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

===== Original Text from RC6 Release =====

This release candidate of the Ruby Installer for Windows
was built from the recently released Ruby 1.8.2 preview1.
Unless serious problems are reported, this will probably
be the last release candidate until matz releases 1.8.2
final.

There were four changes since RC5:
- tab-completion in irb now works
   (thanks to _why for his help).
- The OpenGL support that was
   inadvertently left out of RC5
   is back in.
- Start menu shortcuts have been
   added to online documentation on
   ruby-doc.org.
- The "reboot" dialog message at the
   end of the installation has been
   removed to enable unattended
   installations using the command
   line arguments:
      /S /D=<install dir>

You can download this release candidate from:

  http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

You can check for reported problems (or report
new problems) at:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167

What is the Ruby Installer for Windows?

···

---------------------------------------

The Ruby Installer for Windows is a "one-click",
self-contained Windows installer that contains
the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular
extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting
editor and execution environment, and a Windows
help file that contains the full text of the
book, "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's
Guide".

Change Log for 1.8.2-14_RC6
---------------------------
- This is a build of Ruby 1.8.2 preview1.
- Corrected missing OpenGL support.
- Added Start Menu shortcuts to documentation
  on ruby-doc.org.
- Eliminated the installer dialog message that
  warned you might need to reboot your system.
  This allows for unattended installs using the
  command-line arguments:
      /S /D=<install dir>
- Changed the layout of the Windows registry
  entries.
- Fixed a typo in a windows registry entry
  (bug 643).
- Upgraded Expat to version 1.95.7
- Upgraded Ruby-odbc to version 0.993
- Upgraded DBI to 0.23
- Upgraded FXRuby to version 1.0.29

19

Hello Curt,

A public debate over what should or should not be included has occurred
several times in the past. As you might expect everyone has their own
favorites. I'm sure that a very good case could be made for each possible
inclusion, but it is simply not practical to include too many things, and
its not possible satisfy everyone.

The way I want to address this problem is to include RubyGems in the
installer, and then encourage package authors to release their packages in
RubyGems format. Then getting ruby-postgres installed on your system would
be as simple as running the command "gem install ruby-postgres".

But this does still not help on binary extensions. And until the
brain dead (assuming the build system for extensions is the same as as
the one for the original interpreter) and completely undocumented binary
build system "rb_configure.rb" etc. is changed this is a very serious issue.

My personal request here is to include "wxruby.0.4"

···

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20

I mean, when the one click gets installed, pop up a gui with "select
additional packages.."

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il Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:28:26 GMT, gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it> ha scritto::

on the lines of the hread, I think the best thing would be to package
up all the ruby-gnome2 stuff that works on windows in some gems, and
maybe provide a choice at install time something like cygwin does