On 10/30/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Luis Lavena <luislavena / gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Even if the ruby stblib has the extension pre-compiled for you, you
> > still need OpenSSL installed to use it.
> >
> > So: non-identified dependencies still applies to Windows.
>
> OpenSSL is included in the Ruby One-Click Installer. OUT OF THE BOX,
> Ruby on Windows is more immediately useful than Ruby on Debian. By the
> way, I strongly suggest you look at the threads I've posted about the
> absolute *crap* that is the build situation on Windows and Microsoft's
> culpability on this nonsense.
>

Austin, you're the one that every post/thread I start asking for
feedback you follow with a flamewar, or tell me that is not the right
place to ask.

All that followed by rants about microsoft and their tools or whatever crap is.

You're the one that start pointing finger and didn't provide a
solution, as you said: code talks... show me your code.

> Your suggestion (managing packages for Windows) indicates how little
> you know about the Windows situation overall. (The quality of the Ruby
> packages on Windows extends directly to Andy Hunt and Curt Hibbs
> tireless efforts at various times.)
>

No, it seems you're the one that have it off out sight.

MSI installer are packages (actually a DB) with manifests that states
where to put each file included into.

Currently OCI is a big ZIP file with everything bundled, which is sub
optimum and unmaintainable.

*That* isn't the way of packaging this under Windows... I thought you
knew that... Also, bundling OpenSSL with OCI don't make it "Out of the
Box", but a hidden problem for someone trying to use Apache with
manually installed OpenSSL with Ruby.

Hey, since you rant so much about Windows, VC8, MinGW, x64 and all
that, why you don't collaborate with Curt and Andy on
One-Click-Installer?

I'm doing something, what about you?

Hmm... maybe your code can't talk after all?

-- 
Luis Lavena
Multimedia systems
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