Ruby Installer for Windows Ruby Version 1.6.6 Installer Version 0 ------------------------------ RELEASE NOTES ------------------------------ Contents: Version: -------- -------- Ruby 1.6.6 FXRuby w/OpenGL 0.99.189 TclTk 8.3 TestUnit 2/9/2002 RDoc alpha-a Rexml 1.2.5 win32ole 0.3.3 XMLParser 0.6.1 Ruby/DBI 0.0.12 DBD/ODBC 0.94 DBD/Postgres 0.6.5 DBD/MySql 2.4.2 DBD/oracle 0.2.11 ProgrammingRuby 3a 1. You can install overtop of an existing installation that has the same Ruby major version number (e.g., 1.6). Installations up to and including 1.6.5-1 can only be uninstalled. All versions can co-exist peacefully (DLL's willing) in separate directories. 2. This version was compiled using Microsoft Visual C++, not Cygwin. As a result, some I/O functionality -- particularly those involving the Unix fork() system call and pipes -- will not work. The benefit of using MSVC is to have a more stable and reliable version of Ruby. 2. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INCLUDED RubyWin PROGRAM IS, ACCORDING TO ITS AUTHOR, ALPHA QUALITY ONLY. It is not a full-featured IDE, just a convenient way to work with the Ruby interpreter and run programs. The current version of RubyWin cannot be installed in a directory path that contains spaces in the name (such as "c:\Program Files\Ruby") or it will fail. Ruby itself does not have this limitation. Note that the included editor, SciTE, has the ability to run Ruby programs as well. -- Bugs in Ruby itself should be e-mailed to ruby-bugs@ruby-lang.org. Bugs in RubyWin should be e-mailed to CQN02273@nifty.ne.jp Bugs in the installer should be e-mailed to rubybook@pragmaticprogrammer.com. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Change Log: ----------- 1.6.6-0: Change from Cygwin to MSVC 1.6.5-2: New installer technology from Nullsoft 1.6.5-1: Added .a, SciTE, new help file 1.6.5-0: Updated to 1.6.5 and new cygwin 1.6.4-3: Added FXRuby (Fox GUI) lib to distribution 1.6.4-2: Fixed issue with leading line in autoexec.bat, upgraded RubyWin to 0.0.3.5. 1.6.4-1: Changed GUID, moved README file, improved path warning 1.6.4-0: Updated to 1.6.4 1.6.3-1: Added missing extensions 1.6.3-0: Updated to 1.6.3 release, add .rb and .rbw to PATHEXT Changed irb.bat to use %0..%9 instead of %* due to problems on Win98; added rd2.bat; uses latest cygwin1.dll; added Windows Help file; fixed uninstall bug; changed GUID 1.6.2-3: Included newer version of RubyWin 1.6.2-2: Corrected Start menu entry 1.6.2-1: Added missing Registry entries 1.6.2-0: Reimplemented without Windows Installer Service 1.6.1-0: Original release based on Windows Installer Service Contributors: ---------- Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a Matz created Ruby in the first place. Bernard Delmée created the Windows Help version of our "Programming Ruby" book. Lyle Johnson ported and provides the FXRuby GUI extension. Dave Thomas translated the original LaTeX of "Programming Ruby" into XML and arranged its release under the Open Publication License. Andy Hunt packaged this all together using the Nullsoft installer (www.nullsoft.com).