On 7/19/06, Simon Kröçer <SimonKroeger / gmx.de> wrote:
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
> >
> > Its more likely that the one-click installer would continue to be a binary
> > distribution (with binary extensions), but with an compiler toolchain that
> > allows users to build additional extensions from source or, even better,
> > provides a known target RubyGems packagers to create gems that require
> > compilation.
> >
> > Curt
>
> I'm just curious, why would you distribute binaries if you have to provide
> the compiler toolchain anyway?
>
> (if we had a build farm, that would be another story)
>
> cheers
>
> Simon
>
Hi Simon,

I was suggesting two installers - one for those who just want an easy
no-fuss one-click binary installer with everything on (the majority)
and one for extension developers who need a reference environment
against which to build extensions. You don't need the MinGW + MSYS
environment bundled - you can get that off the net - it's the patches
and tweaks, etc. that have been used to create the one-click binary
version that you'd want in the developer version (i.e. a way to
reproduce exactly a copy of Curt's development environment :). But if
you did bundle MinGW + MSYS, it would add around 77MB.

Regards,
Sean