From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T02:00:43+09:00
Subject: Re: The real Ruby vs. Python.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:07:10 +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma)
<transami@runbox.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 10:48 am, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
> | 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/
> Are there downsides to this approach for Windows users?

Yes. IIRC, you lose all Win32 API interaction, especially Win32OLE,
which is an extremely compelling reason to use Ruby on Windows.

-austin
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