From: umptious@... (JC)
Date: 2005-02-14T11:20:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Windows: debugger questions and comments

"Curt Hibbs" <curt@hibbs.com> wrote in message news:<EAENKKNOJPMNCDMLDOMLOEEOHNAA.curt@hibbs.com>...
> JC wrote:
> >
> > 1. It seems that the debugger built into FreeRIDE doesn't work under
> > Windows? If this is true, why on earth doesn't the debugger pop a
> > dialog box saying this when you try to use it??? Leaving around a
> > broken debugger without any warning to users in a development
> > environment makes Ruby look so bad compared to the standard Python and
> > Perl distributions. A few minutes effort would at least stop Ruby from
> > looking unreliable.
> 
> The latest version of FreeRide, and the version of FreeRIDE that comes with
> the One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows, both have working debuggers.
> 
> Curt

So why does the FreeRIDE homepage say: "Unfortunately, the debugger
still does not work on Windows. We are actively trying to resolve this
problem."? And why does the Ruby 182-14 install that I downloaded NOT
having aworking debugger?