From: David Mullet <david.mullet@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T23:17:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

brad tilley wrote:

> This may be a trivial reason to most people, but it makes a huge 
> difference to me. I find it _much_ easier to turn .rb scripts into 
> standalone .exe executbales on Windows. I've used Python's py2exe and it 
> works OK, but Ruby's rubyscript2exe is far better and far easier to use.

I absolutely agree! Erik Veenstra's done a fantastic job developing, 
maintaining, documenting, and supporting Tar2Rubyscript and 
Rubyscript2Exe, and that's a major reason why I am developing more apps 
in Ruby than in Python (with which I have more experience).

Mully

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