On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Zachary Brown<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello jruby-dev,
>
> I've been doing extensive Windows dev work for the last few months, and
> possibly foreseeable future
> if I get a full time offer (I'm a Microsoft Intern on the Windows team). In
> the midst of this time,
> I've been using JRuby to automate some work I do along the way.
>
> It occurs to me that it might be beneficial to have a Windows MSI for JRuby.
> Is this something
> people would be interested in? If so I'll set aside a little time and see if
> I can write up
> the necessary guts for automating this task and possibly maintain it myself.
If you look back at the archives, we recently had a discussion about
installers for various platforms, including Windows. A number were
submitted, and we just haven't chosen a "winner" yet. If you'd like to
toss an MSI-based installer into the running, we'd certainly take a
look at it too...or you could evaluate what's been submitted and let
us know if there's something an MSI installer could do better.
And for those of you that submitted installers...rest assured, we're
going to pick something. It's just been a busier-than-expected couple
of weeks.
At the moment I'm thinking the BitRock installers would be great for
all the non-OS X *nix environments. For Windows, it's a toss-up
between BitRock and Install4j, but the BitRock installers seem to have
more options for embedding a Java SDK/JRE (maybe I missed that with
Install4j). And for Mac, everyone agreed we need a packagetool-based
installer, but we have not had one submitted yet.
- Charlie
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