Hello guys, Some of you are aware of the new implementation of One-Click Installer, which is based on MinGW (GCC) instead of current one based in VC6.
Besides the huge noise around this, the move to MinGW is to ease the path of tools, extensions and gem available in *nix to be usable on Windows. Right now, i386-mswin32 (VC6) cannot be considered deprecated, since lot of tools include patches to support it an even considered it the only Windows platform. Also, until most of the tools properly builds with the new version, both will be maintained. Anyway, after this brief introduction, I want to ask and share something we (Gordon Thiesfeld and I) were discussing on rubyinstaller development list [1]: merge rubygems generated scripts and stubs into one and only file (gemname.bat). Right now RubyGems generates the Windows stubs that call the extension less files (which contains the actual ruby script). This is good for running gems from the command line, but fails when using backticks or system calls from Ruby, since the look up method used in Ruby prioritize extension less files over executable (.bat/.cmd/.exe/.com) files. That's one of the reasons we are forced to add '.bat' to every rake or system call that fires other commands already installed by other gems. Ruby bundled scripts workaround this merging both stub (.bat) and script into the same file. Another workaround will be hack what currently Ruby does, but that will require a lot of approval which I see will not came soon (or ever). Doing this right now breaks lot of tests, since the presumption of having two separate scripts will be gone... but this solves a lot of problems, also reduce the issues when providing patches for other projects too, since we can disregard the '.bat' regexp at some places. What do you guys think? [1] http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2008-April/000292.html -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
