From: Howard Lewis Ship <hlship@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T23:48:23+09:00
Subject: Re: The real Ruby vs. Python.

I tried using the basic Ruby for windows package and got a few
mysterious errors ("readline.dll not found" when running  irb).

I backed that out and used Cygwin to install ruby.  Now it runs perfectly.

I was able to install RubyGems and start exploring that as well.  It
didn't work with the "native" Ruby, but is completely seamless (to my
cursory examination) when using Ruby under Cygwin.

Cygwin, by explantion, is a POSIX layer on top of Windows.  It adds
aptget/rpm type functionality ... you download a small installer and
it downloads package descriptions for all the (Li|U)nixy stuff.  It
handles downloading, installing, versioning, dependencies.

http://www.cygwin.com/


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:11:19 +0900, Abe Vionas_MailingList
<mailinglist_abe@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What it comes down to is what it's coming down to for
> me... platform maturity.
> 
> Python on windows has a broad range of libraries
> available for anything you could ever dream of:
> Apache, Java, Email, Protocols, GTK, Qt, Tk, OpenGL,
> PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc etc etc. As far as Python
> library availability for Linux, I really don't know,
> as I was only looking for windows stuff last night. My
> feeling is that while not being quite as comprehensive
> as it's windows offerings it still offers a good
> depth.
> 
-- 
Howard M. Lewis Ship
Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant
Creator, Jakarta Tapestry
Creator, Jakarta HiveMind
http://howardlewisship.com