From: TLOlczyk <olczyk2002@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T21:21:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ... old topic, new discussion

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:46:34 +0900, Jeff Wood
<jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:

>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.

In terms of Perl, it was allready taking on the world when
ActiveState glommed on to it. ActiveState gained more from that
association than Perl did. The same for TK.

For Python ActiveState did do something, it made the Windows
version usable in one step where you didn't have to muck around a lot
with installation. However if you look at the later history their
participation did more harm than good, and if a few things had gone
the wrong way Python would be dieing now.

I don't think people want to put Ruby in their hands. It's too risky.




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