Program Files is a protected directory in Vista and Win7. I have run into
permission issues in the past.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jimmy Schementi <
jimmy.scheme...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> > Ok sounds good.
> > A couple of feedback items for the installer, then:
> > 1) default to a path without spaces, perhaps
>
> Does installing to "Program Files" actually cause issues? Other than
> needing to quote the path to ir.exe?
>
> > 2) have a checkbox for if we want to install with the i prefix or not on
> pre-
> > installed gems (I know I for one wouldn't).
>
> We don't preinstall any gems with IronRuby. So what you're asking is an
> option so we remove the "i" from "iri.bat", "irdoc.bat", and "igem.bat" ?
> Keep in mind the actual ruby files are still "ri", "rdoc", and "gem". For
> the problem with "ir script/console", rails should fix this (as in, JRuby
> has the same problem as they ship with jirb).
>
> Also, I think there's a way to tell RubyGems to prefix the bat files it
> generates, so installing rails would install irails.bat, to keep things
> consistent.
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