Including Shoes in Shoes package

Question

I've been having a problem with including Shoes in a Shoes app for Windows. The packager tool works perfectly when I don't ask to include Shoes in the app: I get an .exe that, if launched on a Shoes-less computer, downloads Shoes and then runs as expected.

However, when I ask it to include Shoes, the packager seems to get stuck on something from the get-go. At least, in some other cases, the packager does make an executable, even if it didn't contain Shoes. Here, it just freezes.

I even tried the solution proposed here, but I couldn't manage building shoes. After cloning the rubyinstaller repository and downloading the requisite elements, the rake command aborts prematurely.

Is the app that you're trying to include Shoes in, by chance, also named "Shoes"? — erahm, Jul 10 '14 at 19:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 15 '14 at 10:35

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Installer may be a corrupted one or may contains some missing files. So,its better to download another and try again.

edited Oct 15 '14 at 10:35

Nagarjun

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answered Aug 20 '14 at 08:43

Ashraf.Shk786

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 19 '14 at 03:06

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May be installer itself is buggy. Try other packaging software. The great one for Windows is NSIS here. It has a simple scripting which will help you to make your installer more adaptive.

And you could search an old version of this product.

edited Nov 19 '14 at 03:06

Yaw Boakye

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answered Mar 18 '14 at 18:57

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Including Shoes in Shoes package

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