On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:01:37AM +0900, Luis Lavena wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Sometimes is good to be wrong.
> 
> Back in 2008 I said that going MSI and WiX was going to be the best
> option from the "Administrative point of view"
> 
> At the end, I ended neglecting the XML files that WiX uses on every
> bumping of version of Ruby, all that because updating those XML
> failed.

XML files?  There's a gem for that.  ;-)

> I take the responsibility of that, and was one of the things that
> slowed (to snail speed would say) the development and release cycle of
> Ruby Installer.
> 
> After my last weekend struggling with WiX, and even contributions by
> Bosko with some WiX changes to make it work, I decided to drop it.
> 
> As replacement, I've decided to go back to the basic and the tool I
> know best: InnoSetup.
> 
> Hacked some basic scripts and then updated those to do more stuff
> automatically. Hooked back in Rake and...
> 
> We have preview1!!!
> 
> http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

Thank you!  Next time I have to boot parallels, I will cuss at my
computer less.  My girlfriend appreciates you.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/