[Rubyinstaller-devel] OpenSSL update & curses support

[Lars Christensen]

Hello,

I had been tinkering with a similar project 
(http://github.com/larsch/rakeruby4win/) until I found rubyinstaller. I 
will probably abandon it now, since rubyinstaller is more complete and 
clean, but there are couple of thing's I'd like to see in RubyInstaller.

The OpenSSL library that is used for the rubyinstaller is very old. I 
have added a rake recipe to build openssl from source 
(http://github.com/larsch/rubyinstaller/commits/opensslbuild). The 
biggest problem is that it depends on a Perl installation, and the MSYS 
perl doesn't work. I have not been able to find a Perl package for 
windows that is easily downloadable & installable into the sandbox. 
Another small issue is that you need to clean up the PATH environment 
let it find mingw and nothing but mingw (the recipe does this). Other 
than that it appears to work.

I have added a recipe for pdcurses as well (on branch pdcurses).

A couple of minor issues I encountered:
  - rubygems installation doesnt work if RUBYOPT is set. I added a few 
lines to clear it on my master branch.
  - README.txt suggests that rubyinstaller will work with ruby 1.8.5 or 
later. I could not get it working using Ruby1.8.6-p0. There see to be 
some issues with Kernel#system when quoting the executable and directing 
to NUL at the same time. -p111 works fine however. Might be worthwhile 
checking the patch level and warning the user.
  - git and CR/LF is somewhat a mess. Any tips? If I checkout with 
core.autocrlf=true, it breaks the WiX XML files. If I edit files with 
core.autocrlf=false, it breaks the delta on everything else.

Regards,
Lars