RailsInstaller Compatibility

[metaskills]

Luis, from our conversation, this is a reminder that when I installed RailsInstaller 1.0.5 I did not have all that I needed to use MiniPortile.

I had to download bsdtar and place it inside C:\RailsInstaller\DevKit\mingw\bin as tar.exe

I also had to execute C:\RailsInstaller\DevKit\devkitvars.bat

[metaskills]

As a followup, after doing that you had me:

Please download also "libarchive-2.8.3-1-mingw32-dll-2.tar.bz2" and
"bsdcpio-2.8.3-1-mingw32-bin.tar.bz2" and extract in the same
directory.

Then after that.

liblzma-4.999.9beta_20100401-1-mingw32-dll-1.tar.bz2 & xz-4.999.9beta_20100401-1-mingw32-bin.tar.bz2

[luislavena]

Lookup all supported tar combinations

MiniPortile now handles 'tar' differences properly. It will attempt
to lookup for alternatives like bsdtar and basic-bsdtar before
failing.

Please note that RubyInstaller's DevKit remains to be updated to
include any possible tar implementation, see RubyInstaller Issue:

https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/issues#issue/60

Once this is implemented RubyInstaller (and RailsInstaller as result)
will be usable without manual download of packages.

In the meantime, you can download basic-bsdtar by MinGW project from:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/basic-bsdtar-2.8.3-1-mingw32-bin.zip

And place 'basic-bsdtar.exe' somewhere in the PATH.

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