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I really don't think that the CygWin installation should be included.
It's quite large, any one wouldn't want to download it more frequently
than necessary.  Also, the CygWin site is pretty easy to use, though the
first installation takes a couple of hours to download over a pretty fast
connection.  Still, it's now got an updater, so that subsequent installs
only need to download the things that have changed.  QUITE a bit less.

Perhaps the updater could be included in the download.  But it should
come with a warning that you will need to stay connected while it does
it's work.

Dave Thomas wrote:

> I was wondering if there is consensus out there on a Windows
> distribution for Ruby 1.6? We'd like to have a definitive link from
> our web site to something that users can just download and install, as
> we're anticipating a number of new Ruby users coming along shortly.
>
> The ideal would have:
>
>   - an installer/uninstaller
>   - everything required in one download (so if cygwin was needed it
>     was in the package)
>   - working Tk
>   - WIN32API/OLE
>
> Is there such a beast? If not, how quickly could we as a community put
> one together? What could I do to help?
>
> Regards
>
> Dave

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