From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2004-10-18T17:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyx on OS News

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:12:43 +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma)
<transami@runbox.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 October 2004 11:41 am, Bill Atkins wrote:
> | What is the advantage of serving Rubyx through White Water rather
> | than, say, BitTorrent, which is much more common?
> |
> | I think Rubyx might be interesting, but the obscure download method is
> | going to cause some people to just move on.
> |
> | Bill
> 
> Rubyx used to use BitTorrent actually. I'm not sure why Andrew wrote his own.
> It doesn't bother me --in fact I kind of like ww since it is just one
> program, I was able to get it working in minutes.

well, I guess you're lucky. I can't get whitewater to compile on my
system (powerpc/darwin) so I couldn't download the iso. That ended my
experiment in Rubyx :/ Perhaps I can install it just using the rubyx
script mentioned above? Perhaps I'll see...

cheers,
Mark