Comments on: Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows (from the trenches) http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/ Compartiendo fragmentos de código con el mundo. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:31:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: roger http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-428 roger Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:35:30 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-428 Here's the link to "building the Shoes ruby toolkit in win32 with MinGW" from the other related post--might be useful should others want to try this. http://www.holymonkey.com/building-shoes-in-windows Here’s the link to “building the Shoes ruby toolkit in win32 with MinGW” from the other related post–might be useful should others want to try this. http://www.holymonkey.com/building-shoes-in-windows

]]> By: roger http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-422 roger Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:46:08 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-422 Did the link change to http://www.holymonkey.com/building-shoes-in-windows ? Did the link change to http://www.holymonkey.com/building-shoes-in-windows ?

]]> By: Luis http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Luis Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:50:39 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-354 You said cross-compilation? rake-compiler for you: http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/13/while-leaving-ny-rake-compiler-for-the-masses/ http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler There are lot of things that you need to test on every release of Ruby, a missing zlib is just one ;) You said cross-compilation? rake-compiler for you:

http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/13/while-leaving-ny-rake-compiler-for-the-masses/

http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler

There are lot of things that you need to test on every release of Ruby, a missing zlib is just one ;)

]]> By: Tom http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Tom Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:04:37 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-353 That is great news! Only bundling rubygems with ruby vanilla is the way to go in my opinion. One could always do a package of common components on the side, but with MinGW GCC being the new go to compiler, one would hope most gems will be compiled without issues; Maybe even cross compilation? I'll make sure to watch the mailing list for further updates, but great job so far. Aside: I noticed in the 1.9.1 preview, zlib.dll was missing, meaning rubygems wouldn't work. That is great news! Only bundling rubygems with ruby vanilla is the way to go in my opinion.

One could always do a package of common components on the side, but with MinGW GCC being the new go to compiler, one would hope most gems will be compiled without issues; Maybe even cross compilation?

I’ll make sure to watch the mailing list for further updates, but great job so far.

Aside: I noticed in the 1.9.1 preview, zlib.dll was missing, meaning rubygems wouldn’t work.

]]> By: Luis http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Luis Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:40:14 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-352 I forgot to add too ;) With current installer (the huge One-Click) is almost impossible get a faster release. I spent up to 10 hours on each release doing QA of all the components bundled, and even so, I miss some details. With the new format we have currently automated pretty much the whole process (besides being a slimmed down version of the installer). I forgot to add too ;)

With current installer (the huge One-Click) is almost impossible get a faster release.

I spent up to 10 hours on each release doing QA of all the components bundled, and even so, I miss some details.

With the new format we have currently automated pretty much the whole process (besides being a slimmed down version of the installer).

]]> By: Luis http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Luis Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:37:35 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-351 We are targetting end of January for the MinGW installer. There are plenty of dependencies that still don't work with GCC and we need to get working to start matching current version. 1.9.1 and 1.8.6 are targetted with the new Installer. I'm working on a new recipe syntax that ease the building of several versions. If you're interested, I recommend you subscribe to rubyinstaller-devel mailing list: http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubyinstaller-devel And start watching the GitHub repository: http://github.com/luislavena/rubyinstaller Regards. We are targetting end of January for the MinGW installer. There are plenty of dependencies that still don’t work with GCC and we need to get working to start matching current version.

1.9.1 and 1.8.6 are targetted with the new Installer. I’m working on a new recipe syntax that ease the building of several versions.

If you’re interested, I recommend you subscribe to rubyinstaller-devel mailing list:

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubyinstaller-devel

And start watching the GitHub repository:

http://github.com/luislavena/rubyinstaller

Regards.

]]> By: Luis http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Luis Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:33:00 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-350 The new One-Click build with MinGW is barebones (Ruby+RubyGems) as described here: http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Roadmap Since takes ages manually verify all the bundled extensions, gems and others. That one of the reasons for the change. Other is the Compiler being available to remove the issues with Gems lacking binaries on Windows. The new One-Click build with MinGW is barebones (Ruby+RubyGems) as described here:

http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Roadmap

Since takes ages manually verify all the bundled extensions, gems and others. That one of the reasons for the change.

Other is the Compiler being available to remove the issues with Gems lacking binaries on Windows.

]]> By: Tom http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Tom Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:08:55 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-349 Forgot to add: I'm talking about 1.9.1 final, scheduled for release on January 25th, not the RC1 or preview. Also, I think you're doing a great job on it, just wish it'd be possible to get faster releases. :) Forgot to add: I’m talking about 1.9.1 final, scheduled for release on January 25th, not the RC1 or preview.

Also, I think you’re doing a great job on it, just wish it’d be possible to get faster releases. :)

]]> By: Thomas http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Thomas Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:05:54 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-348 Hi Luis, Does this mean there will be a 1.9.1 windows release soon after, but without compatibility with existing gems? That would make sense to me at least, since a lot of them have to be rebuilt for 1.9 anyway? If not, have you considered releasing a barebones 1.9.1 compiled with mingw that only includes what the *nix version does, in addition to perhaps RubyGems itself, for those of us that are willing to deal with incompatible gems? Hi Luis,

Does this mean there will be a 1.9.1 windows release soon after, but without compatibility with existing gems? That would make sense to me at least, since a lot of them have to be rebuilt for 1.9 anyway?

If not, have you considered releasing a barebones 1.9.1 compiled with mingw that only includes what the *nix version does, in addition to perhaps RubyGems itself, for those of us that are willing to deal with incompatible gems?

]]> By: Luis http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/12/31/ruby-191-on-windows-from-the-trenches/comment-page-1/#comment-347 Luis Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:05:44 +0000 http://blog.mmediasys.com/?p=112#comment-347 Hello Tom, I commented previously on several mailing list that there will not be a 1.9.1 release of One-Click installer using the current Installer mechanism. Is really hard do releases for the current 1.8.6 codebase and all the bundled extensions and plugins. 1.9.1 needs more testing of the bundled components and that requires more han the one I have available for Open Source projects. We are working in a series of recipes that ease building of the interpreter and dependencies for both 1.8.6 and 1.9.1 with MinGW, not VC6. That breaks the compatibility with current VC6 gems and extensions, so we are working on ease the migration path. Don't expect a release of this version until end of January, there are too many changes between 1.8.x and 1.9 that needs to be tracked for properly release something. Hello Tom,

I commented previously on several mailing list that there will not be a 1.9.1 release of One-Click installer using the current Installer mechanism.

Is really hard do releases for the current 1.8.6 codebase and all the bundled extensions and plugins.

1.9.1 needs more testing of the bundled components and that requires more han the one I have available for Open Source projects.

We are working in a series of recipes that ease building of the interpreter and dependencies for both 1.8.6 and 1.9.1 with MinGW, not VC6.

That breaks the compatibility with current VC6 gems and extensions, so we are working on ease the migration path.

Don’t expect a release of this version until end of January, there are too many changes between 1.8.x and 1.9 that needs to be tracked for properly release something.

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