From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T01:46:34+09:00
Subject: ... old topic, new discussion

So, 

I've been doing quite a bit of Ruby stuff under Windows lately and I
would really like to bring light back to a thread that happend way
back in April of 2001...

Do we believe that there is a need for an ActiveState Ruby
distribution.  They've done wonderful things with their support of
Win32 programming for Perl & Python... the .net stuff, etc.

I, obviously, would love to see that same attention paid to our
language of choice.

I see lots of notes here and there that state "File I/O is ugly, or
things are just ugly because they tried to emulate the *nix apis for
things that could be done much faster and cleaner with Win32 native
apis...

Anyways, I just wanted to throw the question out, I'd really like to
see everyone's feedback.  Windows is still the dominant platform,
having more support in more places could provide a real kick to
helping mass-market acceptance.

There's my $0.02 ... where's yours?

j.

-- 
"So long, and thanks for all the fish"

Jeff Wood