From: Mohit SIndhwani <rcore_ml@...>
Date: 2008-08-10T14:54:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18227] First Message & BCC32 Platform

Hi Everyone

This is my first outing on Ruby-Core, so let me start by saying hello 
and thanks to all of you for all the hard work so far!

On the Ruby Mailing List, there was a recent post mentioning the arrival 
of Ruby 1.9.0-3 and a list of platforms that are being dropped.

> == Platforms
> Ruby 1.9 no longer supports the following platforms because they have no
> active maintainer.
> * BeOS
> * WinCE
> * OS/2
> * Interix
> * bcc32
> * Classic MacOS
> * djgpp
> * VMS
> * human68k
>
> I will remove platform-specific codes for them from Ruby, unless someone
> become a maintainer by 25 Sep.

Is there a lot of work required for maintaining? I would hate to see the
bcc32 version go away at a time when it looks like Borland/ CodeGear
seems to finally be getting it together. I'm sorry I've never maintained
anything this big, but would be interested to know a bit more if it's
possible.

Thanks
Mohit.