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Re: [ANN] One-Click Installer 1.8.2-14 RC9 with RubyGems built-in

Bradley, Todd

11/9/2004 7:02:00 PM

> The reason for including FreeRIDE is because it helps
> newcomers (especially those that are IDE centric). Its both
> comforting and useful to have that source-code navigation
> pane that lets you see and navigate a file by
> module/class/method. And many people prefer to have an
> integrated GUI debugger. Of course, there are others who
> appreciate these features as well (for those that prefer just
> an editor, there is SciTE).

As one of the "newcomers" you speak of, I have to
agree with you. I'm learning Ruby on Windows. Since
Windows is generally inferior to Unix for code develop-
ment, I really appreciate having both SciTE and FreeRIDE.
I've been using SciTE exclusively once I started finding
disturbing limitations in FreeRIDE.

Thanks for making the one-click Windows installer, and
thanks for including SciTE with it. It's made my own
adoption of Ruby that much easier.


Todd.
5 Answers

Curt Hibbs

11/9/2004 7:21:00 PM

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Bradley, Todd wrote:
>
> > The reason for including FreeRIDE is because it helps
> > newcomers (especially those that are IDE centric). Its both
> > comforting and useful to have that source-code navigation
> > pane that lets you see and navigate a file by
> > module/class/method. And many people prefer to have an
> > integrated GUI debugger. Of course, there are others who
> > appreciate these features as well (for those that prefer just
> > an editor, there is SciTE).
>
> As one of the "newcomers" you speak of, I have to
> agree with you. I'm learning Ruby on Windows. Since
> Windows is generally inferior to Unix for code develop-
> ment, I really appreciate having both SciTE and FreeRIDE.
> I've been using SciTE exclusively once I started finding
> disturbing limitations in FreeRIDE.

I'd really like to know more about the limitations that moved you off of
FreeRIDE. Some of them may have been fixed in FreeRIDE 0.8.0 (which is *not*
in the installer -- its at 0.7.0) and some may be on the ToDo list. But most
importantly, I would like to get anything else onto FreeRIDE's bug-list or
feature-request list.

> Thanks for making the one-click Windows installer, and
> thanks for including SciTE with it. It's made my own
> adoption of Ruby that much easier.

That's really gratifying to hear! Thanks.

Amazingly (to me anyway), the One-Click Installer for Windows has averaged
nearly 150 downloads a day for most of this year, and I often wonder who is
using, and how its working out. Of course, I always hear about the problems,
but its nice to hear from happy campers as well! :-)

Curt

Stephan Kämper

11/9/2004 8:47:00 PM

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Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Amazingly (to me anyway), the One-Click Installer for Windows has averaged
> nearly 150 downloads a day for most of this year, and I often wonder who is
> using, and how its working out. Of course, I always hear about the problems,
> but its nice to hear from happy campers as well! :-)

Well, I'm one of them. In fact, I'm a Kaemper. :-D

Happy rubying

Stephan

Michal Suchanek

11/15/2004 11:07:00 PM

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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:21:22AM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Bradley, Todd wrote:
> >
> > > The reason for including FreeRIDE is because it helps
> > > newcomers (especially those that are IDE centric). Its both
> > > comforting and useful to have that source-code navigation
> > > pane that lets you see and navigate a file by
> > > module/class/method. And many people prefer to have an
> > > integrated GUI debugger. Of course, there are others who
> > > appreciate these features as well (for those that prefer just
> > > an editor, there is SciTE).
> >
> > As one of the "newcomers" you speak of, I have to
> > agree with you. I'm learning Ruby on Windows. Since
> > Windows is generally inferior to Unix for code develop-
> > ment, I really appreciate having both SciTE and FreeRIDE.
> > I've been using SciTE exclusively once I started finding
> > disturbing limitations in FreeRIDE.
>
> I'd really like to know more about the limitations that moved you off of
> FreeRIDE. Some of them may have been fixed in FreeRIDE 0.8.0 (which is *not*
> in the installer -- its at 0.7.0) and some may be on the ToDo list. But most
> importantly, I would like to get anything else onto FreeRIDE's bug-list or
> feature-request list.
>
> > Thanks for making the one-click Windows installer, and
> > thanks for including SciTE with it. It's made my own
> > adoption of Ruby that much easier.
>
> That's really gratifying to hear! Thanks.
>
> Amazingly (to me anyway), the One-Click Installer for Windows has averaged
> nearly 150 downloads a day for most of this year, and I often wonder who is
> using, and how its working out. Of course, I always hear about the problems,
> but its nice to hear from happy campers as well! :-)

Speaking of downloads, I tried to download the installer (probably
shortly afret it was released) and my Azureus could not find a usable
source. So I went ahead and got it the old way using http.

It probably takes some days before the torrent propagates enough.

Is there a mirroring script one could use to mirror torrents
automagically?

Thanks

Michal Suchanek

Tom Copeland

11/16/2004 1:33:00 AM

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> Speaking of downloads, I tried to download the installer
> (probably shortly afret it was released) and my Azureus could
> not find a usable source. So I went ahead and got it the old
> way using http.
>
> It probably takes some days before the torrent propagates enough.
>
> Is there a mirroring script one could use to mirror torrents
> automagically?

Sorry about that - usually I:

1- set up the new torrent on http://bt.ruby...
2- start a headless downloader there
3- when I get home that night, start up my bittorrent client and
download it and leave it running

I think this time there was a window when there wasn't a headless
downloader running and I hadn't started my home machine client yet, so
there weren't any peers that weren't behind firewalls, if that makes
sense.

Yours,

Tom

Michal Suchanek

11/16/2004 6:35:00 PM

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:32:54AM +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:
> > Speaking of downloads, I tried to download the installer
> > (probably shortly afret it was released) and my Azureus could
> > not find a usable source. So I went ahead and got it the old
> > way using http.
> >
> > It probably takes some days before the torrent propagates enough.
> >
> > Is there a mirroring script one could use to mirror torrents
> > automagically?
>
> Sorry about that - usually I:
>
> 1- set up the new torrent on http://bt.ruby...
> 2- start a headless downloader there
> 3- when I get home that night, start up my bittorrent client and
> download it and leave it running
>
> I think this time there was a window when there wasn't a headless
> downloader running and I hadn't started my home machine client yet, so
> there weren't any peers that weren't behind firewalls, if that makes
> sense.
>

Actually it downloaded a few kilobytes and then stopped. So I think
something was running but it was overloaded. On the other hand,
downloading the previous version of installer was several times faster
than http.


Thanks

Michal Suchanek