Hi folks,
FYI: I upgraded my installation of cygwin a couple of days ago and I notice
that Ruby is now available via the installer. It’s a pretty bare bones
install, but still - a step forward.
Only mentioning it because no-one else seemed to.
I now return to my regularly scheduled lurking.
Rob.
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Yes, I added a plain 1.6.8 to the Cygwin release. I had just the
usual(?) trouble with tcltklib so I had to release a new version
a few days later.
Actually I’m very new to Ruby (I’m just through up to chapter 18
of the pickaxe book and wrote my first 5 or 6 scripts) but I was
very excited about this new language and when I learned that it
builds OOTB on Cygwin, I couldn’t stop anymore 
However, I’m open to criticism and suggestions if I did something
wrong. I’m a bit concerned about the “bare bones” wording…
Corinna
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robert.j.lally@jpmorgan.com wrote:
Hi folks,
FYI: I upgraded my installation of cygwin a couple of days ago and I notice
that Ruby is now available via the installer. It’s a pretty bare bones
install, but still - a step forward.
Only mentioning it because no-one else seemed to.
–
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
Hi folks,
FYI: I upgraded my installation of cygwin a couple of days ago and I
notice
that Ruby is now available via the installer. It’s a pretty bare bones
install, but still - a step forward.
Only mentioning it because no-one else seemed to.
Yes, I added a plain 1.6.8 to the Cygwin release. I had just the
usual(?) trouble with tcltklib so I had to release a new version
a few days later.
Actually I’m very new to Ruby (I’m just through up to chapter 18
of the pickaxe book and wrote my first 5 or 6 scripts) but I was
very excited about this new language and when I learned that it
builds OOTB on Cygwin, I couldn’t stop anymore 
Welcome aboard…
However, I’m open to criticism and suggestions if I did something
wrong. I’m a bit concerned about the “bare bones” wording…
I’m not sure what Robert was referring to – I don’t
know what’s included/excluded in your installation.
But as a reference point, you might look at the “one-
click” Windows installer (from rubycentral.com).
Cheers,
Hal
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Corinna Vinschen” vinschen@redhat.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Ruby now comes with Cygwin installer
robert.j.lally@jpmorgan.com wrote:
In article bait2d$88sf$1@ID-193925.news.dfncis.de,
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Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com wrote:
robert.j.lally@jpmorgan.com wrote:
Hi folks,
FYI: I upgraded my installation of cygwin a couple of days ago and I notice
that Ruby is now available via the installer. It’s a pretty bare bones
install, but still - a step forward.
Only mentioning it because no-one else seemed to.
Yes, I added a plain 1.6.8 to the Cygwin release. I had just the
usual(?) trouble with tcltklib so I had to release a new version
a few days later.
Actually I’m very new to Ruby (I’m just through up to chapter 18
of the pickaxe book and wrote my first 5 or 6 scripts) but I was
very excited about this new language and when I learned that it
builds OOTB on Cygwin, I couldn’t stop anymore
However, I’m open to criticism and suggestions if I did something
wrong. I’m a bit concerned about the “bare bones” wording…
Corinna
–
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
Corinna,
Thanks and welcome to the Ruby community!
Perhaps by ‘bare bones’ he means that he would like to see more Ruby
packages included? Maybe you could install ruby_sumo along with Ruby.
Phil
In Message-Id: bait2d$88sf$1@ID-193925.news.dfncis.de
Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com writes:
However, I’m open to criticism and suggestions if I did something
wrong. I’m a bit concerned about the “bare bones” wording…
Perhaps you are interested in eban’s Ruby binaries including Cygwin
version which already works with setup.exe and have fairly comprehensive
libraries ready to use.
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/cygwin/
He, eban, also interested in your package according to his WWW diary,
so you may be able to collaborate him.
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kjana@dm4lab.to May 23, 2003
What is done can’t be undone.
I took the 1.6.8 source archive as is, configured with --enable-shared
(plus the usual --prefix stuff needed for Cygwin distro packages) and
packed what I got. AFAICS, the installation didn’t left anything out.
Well, except for the tcltklib extension in my first build but that’s
solved in 1.6.8-2.
Corinna
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Hal E. Fulton hal9000@hypermetrics.com wrote:
I’m not sure what Robert was referring to – I don’t
know what’s included/excluded in your installation.
–
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
Phil Tomson wrote:
packages included? Maybe you could install ruby_sumo along with Ruby.
i wouldn’t say just plain install ruby-sumo with Ruby. some people may
not want ruby-sumo. adding rumo-sumo to the whole cygwin distribution,
and maybe even also putting a notice in the Ruby install’s README is
good. but just blindly installin it with Ruby is just asking for trouble.
-Justin
In Message-Id: bait2d$88sf$1@ID-193925.news.dfncis.de
Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com writes:
However, I’m open to criticism and suggestions if I did something
wrong. I’m a bit concerned about the “bare bones” wording…
Perhaps you are interested in eban’s Ruby binaries including Cygwin
version which already works with setup.exe and have fairly comprehensive
libraries ready to use.
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/cygwin/
Uh, this is way too much stuff for me to maintain.
He, eban, also interested in your package according to his WWW diary,
so you may be able to collaborate him.
Sorry 'bout that but I don’t know eban so far neither did I found the
WWW diary you’re talking about. Is he scanning this newsgroup, too?
If eban is interested in becoming package maintainer for the Cygwin
distro, he’s welcome.
Corinna
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YANAGAWA Kazuhisa kjana@dm4lab.to wrote:
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
In article 3ECDBA2A.8070501@yahoo.com,
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Justin White just6979@yahoo.com wrote:
Phil Tomson wrote:
packages included? Maybe you could install ruby_sumo along with Ruby.
i wouldn’t say just plain install ruby-sumo with Ruby. some people may
not want ruby-sumo. adding rumo-sumo to the whole cygwin distribution,
and maybe even also putting a notice in the Ruby install’s README is
good. but just blindly installin it with Ruby is just asking for trouble.
Yes, probably best if it’s a seperate Cygwin package.
Maybe, raa-install could be included in the standard Cygwin Ruby distro to
enable people to easily install Ruby packages later?
Phil
One point is, I don’t think it’s a good idea to maintain a whole lot
of packages which I only slightly understand. Perhaps later. The
other point is, I’m already maintaining nearly 30 packages in the Cygwin
distro.
However, everybody enough motivated to become a package maintainer can
do so in the Cygwin distribution. It's actually a community effort.
Corinna
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Justin White just6979@yahoo.com wrote:
Phil Tomson wrote:
packages included? Maybe you could install ruby_sumo along with Ruby.
i wouldn’t say just plain install ruby-sumo with Ruby. some people may
not want ruby-sumo. adding rumo-sumo to the whole cygwin distribution,
and maybe even also putting a notice in the Ruby install’s README is
good. but just blindly installin it with Ruby is just asking for trouble.
–
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
