On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 05:22:38 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> wrote: >On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 04:57:24 +0900, gabriele renzi ><rff_rff / remove-yahoo.it> wrote: >> Curt Hibbs ha scritto: >> > If someone would be willing to package iconv as a RubyGem, them it would >> > become immediately available thru a simple "gem install iconv", since >> > RubyGems is now included in the one-click installer. >> yes, but iconv is one of the things that is part of the standard ruby >> (it is a c bingind in /ext) so it would be nice to see it provided with >> the standard 1-click-installer (maybe with the proper iconv utility) > >Right. If it's provided with standard Ruby (e.g., OpenSSL, iconv, a >few other things), then the 1-click installer should include them. > >I personally don't like the idea of forcing users to use RubyGems for >a lot of things that are currently in the installer. > personally im kinda sick of all the duplication. i have iconv with my win32 GTK install (gaim), i have iconv with my apache2 install i have iconv with my php install i have iconv with cygwin i have iconv with DevCPP i have iconv with subversion i also have some inconv dlls in my windows\system32 which I dont know what app owns. i dont mind having the world + kitchen sink in the 1click installer as long as I can checkbox it out and not break anything if I have iconv installed by something else already. where is the line? if we add openssl are we going to add mysql just for kicks? or postgresql? how about a c compiler since some extensions require compilation?? -- Stu -- [FAQ] Write Your Own Operating System http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2