Roger Pack wrote:
> Sounds like it might be useful for those that want a "smaller install"
> (I would be one).
> You might want to consider joining the Ruby OCI (One Click Installer)
> mailing list and bouncing your ideas off them.

Good point. And one which I didn't consider. D'oh.

> If you were able to add your package as an "option" next to the typical
> OCI it would get WAY more publicity. I know I would probably download
> it.

It'd , anyway.

> A couple of thoughts:
>
> What about gettext and openssl packages? Those are...vaguely useful.
> And iconv?

I'll have to look into that, and see if they are included with the Ruby
binary or not.

> You might be able to get a far smaller download if you don't include the
> Rdoc stuff, maybe some other stuff.

Well, Ruby (just the binaries) weighs in at roughly 10 MB, and the
documentation is well compressed (it being text and all .

I was thinking about slimming Ruby down, though.

>
>> And while I'd love to compile Ruby, it's impossible for me to obtain a
>> VC6 compiler, so I'll simply grab the Ruby binary off of
>> garbagecollect.jp (same source as the One Click Installer), add the
>> needed support, and that's it, more or less.
>
> If you wanted to live the edge you could compile it with mingw

That's a good idea, and I actually do have a MSYS/MinGW toolchain on
this computer..

> If you try hard I'm sure you can find a VC6 compiler around.

At least not on MS's website (well, I could downgrade if I would shell
out for a recent VS2005/8 version, but I'm unwilling to do so..)

- Phillip