[wxruby-users] Ruby 1.9.1, WxRuby, and Windows

Mario Steele
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:39:13 -0000

Hello Jamal,

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jamal Mazrui <empower at smart.net>
wrote:

> I''m not on the general ruby-talk list at present, and have some
questions
> that, somewhat surprisingly, I could not find answers to, despite much web
> searching.
>

> Is the official version of Ruby 1.9.1 delayed?  I thought it was
> supposed to be released on January 25.  The ruby-lang web site does
> not give an explanation for the delay or a revised schedule, as far as
> I can tell.


Unfortunately I don''t keep up with the Ruby 1.9 core series myself, so
I
don''t  what the state of affairs are over there, and what is the hold
up, if
anything.  We only deal with wxRuby specifically.

Does WxRuby work with Ruby 1.9.1 preview?  I thought I read a
message
> on this list that said this was working.  It may well be the case
> with other operating systems, but I have not been able to get it to
> work with the binary version of Ruby 1.9.1 preview available from the
> ruby-lang site.  I also have not found any encouraging information
> about when a full installer for Windows will be released.  Since there
> have been beta/preview versions of Ruby 1.9.1 for quite a while now,
> this state of affairs surprises me.  I realize that these are
> volunteer projects, but Windows is a popular platform, and the lack of
> keeping up with the superior Ruby 1.9.1 is a cause of concern to me.
> (Python, by comparison, always seems to have an up to date Windows
> installer that is stable).


The current SVN Head is perfectly compatable with Ruby 1.9.x, and we are in
preparations for a 2.0 release, there are just a couple of bugs holding us
up, and may not be fixed, till after we release 2.0, but we''re still
working
on it.  As for the Installer for Python, the installer is maintained
in-house, where as the Ruby Windows Installer, is maintained by a 3rd
party.  Specifically by the Ruby One Click Installer team, currently headed
by Luis Lavena, who is also working to simplify the process, and move away
from the MSVC Compiled version, to MinGW, which is a more freely available
compiler, and is the GNU Compiler, which is used on most Linux and FreeBSD
Systems.

Unfortunately this is the about all the info I can give you, cause this is
all that I know.  My concentrations is more on the wxRuby project, then on
the Ruby Core.


> Thanks for any answers folks here can provide!
>
> Jamal
>

hth,
Mario


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