Rubyinstaller devel - May 2004 - Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.1-13 final

The Ruby Installer 1.8.1-13 (final) for Windows has been released and 
is now available for download from:

  http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

This release fixes most of the problems with RI. One remaining RI
problem is that it still fails with all uppercase items (like 
"RI CGI" and "RI IO").

Win32ole is working much better than in the previous release, but
it still has problems.

All other reported problems have been fixed (I hope :-). 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 1.8.1-13
-----------------------
- Included the win32ole from 1.8.1-10 because the win32ole as
  distributed in Ruby 1.8.1 is broken.
- Hand generated the ri database from a post 1.8.1 Ruby snapshot
  (because ri in the Ruby 1.8.1 release tarball was broken).
- Fixed the bad paths in the *.bat files in ruby\bin.
- Log4R was broken in the Ruby 1.8.1 distribution. This was fixed
  by applying this patch:
  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/80495
- Win32api is present in this distribution, but broken. It will not
  be fixed because Win32api has been deprecated and you should use
  Ruby/DL instead. See:
  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/94569

Enjoy!

Curt

I just created and posted a test build of the installer for Ruby 1.8.2 using
the latest stable snapshot of Ruby (dated 6-5-2004). While I haven''t
been
following this in detail, it has been reported on the ruby-talk ML that a
significant number of Ruby 1.8.1 bugs have been fixed.

You can download this test build here:

  http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/852/ruby182-14-test.zip

I''d like to get some feedback on whether or not this version of Ruby
solves
some of the problems that have been reported with our 1.8.1-13 release.

I don''t have very much spare time at the moment, but if this looks
promising, then I will try to address some of the outstanding bug reports
over the next week or so and then post a release candidate for final
testing.

Thanks,
Curt

I have uploaded a release candidate for Ruby Installer that was built using
the stable snapshot of the Ruby CVS dated 2004-06-30 (yes, that *is* today).
While this snapshot is not an official release of Ruby, it has been reported
that many Ruby bugs have been fixed. I have also updated a few extension
packages to their latest release.

NOTE: I currently have very little free time, so I intend to move this
quickly to a final release (possibly within a week) unless someone reports a
very serious problem with this release candidate.

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".


Change Log for 1.8.2-14
-----------------------
- This is a build of the 1.8.2 stable snapshot
  of Ruby dated 2004-06-29. Many Ruby bugs have
  been reported fixed since the official 1.8.1
  release.
- 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 FXRuby to version 1.0.29

The original release candidate that I posted earlier today did not include
FXRuby. I just posted release candidate 2 which corrects this.

Curt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt@hibbs.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:46 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML; rubyinstaller-announce@rubyforge.org
> Subject: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14 Release Candidate
>
>
> I have uploaded a release candidate for Ruby Installer that was
> built using
> the stable snapshot of the Ruby CVS dated 2004-06-30 (yes, that
> *is* today).
> While this snapshot is not an official release of Ruby, it has
> been reported
> that many Ruby bugs have been fixed. I have also updated a few extension
> packages to their latest release.
>
> NOTE: I currently have very little free time, so I intend to move this
> quickly to a final release (possibly within a week) unless
> someone reports a
> very serious problem with this release candidate.
>
> 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".
>
>
> Change Log for 1.8.2-14
> -----------------------
> - This is a build of the 1.8.2 stable snapshot
>   of Ruby dated 2004-06-29. Many Ruby bugs have
>   been reported fixed since the official 1.8.1
>   release.
> - 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 FXRuby to version 1.0.29
>
>
>
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RC3 adds back the missing support for OpenGL. There were no other changes,
so if you don''t need OpenGL, then you don''t need to download
RC3.

Curt
> -----Original Message-----
>
> The original release candidate that I posted earlier today did not include
> FXRuby. I just posted release candidate 2 which corrects this.
>
> Curt
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > I have uploaded a release candidate for Ruby Installer that was
> > built using
> > the stable snapshot of the Ruby CVS dated 2004-06-30 (yes, that
> > *is* today).
> > While this snapshot is not an official release of Ruby, it has
> > been reported
> > that many Ruby bugs have been fixed. I have also updated a few
extension
> > packages to their latest release.
> >
> > NOTE: I currently have very little free time, so I intend to move this
> > quickly to a final release (possibly within a week) unless
> > someone reports a
> > very serious problem with this release candidate.
> >
> > 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".
> >
> >
> > Change Log for 1.8.2-14
> > -----------------------
> > - This is a build of the 1.8.2 stable snapshot
> >   of Ruby dated 2004-06-29. Many Ruby bugs have
> >   been reported fixed since the official 1.8.1
> >   release.
> > - 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 FXRuby to version 1.0.29
> >
> >
> >
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>
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