From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2001-09-27T11:53:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21758] Re: Problems with Net stuff on Win2000/XP (cygwin?)

Here is a distro of Ruby for Win32 based on MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows):

http://www.ruby-lang.org/~eban/ruby/binaries/mingw/

I was having problems with networking on W2K and found this alternative.  It runs great on W2K (and most of the needed native extensions are precompiled under the lib dir (above).

Regards,

Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Tomson [mailto:ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 7:39 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
> Subject: [ruby-talk:21756] Re: Problems with Net stuff on Win2000/XP
> (cygwin?)
> 
> 
> In article <dd9c9b69.0109261010.4a0ed878@posting.google.com>,
> Carl Youngblood <carlyoungblood@email.com> wrote:
> >Please!  I don't have the time or expertise to dig through the ruby
> >library and try to fix the Net problems that I've been having with XP
> >and 2000.  I have a number of scripts that use SMTP, POP3 and HTTP
> >classes and work fine in Windows 98, but constantly crash on Windows
> >2000 and XP.  I have seen this issue mentioned previously on
> >comp.lang.ruby, but everybody shrugs their shoulders and seems to just
> >put up with it.  I think that this is an important enough issue to
> >really interfere with the progress and wide acceptance of ruby.  In
> >fact, I've ended upn coding a lot of stuff in C# just to avoid the
> >annoyances, even though I would much prefer to use Ruby.
> >
> >Would some courageous soul venture into this territory?
> >
> 
> Do you have any example code? (Caveat: I don't have either Win2k or XP
> nor do I plan to get either of them in the near (or far) future...)
> 
> I recall something about problems with cygwin in some of these areas.  
> Question: do we rely too heavily on cygwin for some things that 
> perhaps we 
> should try to control ourselves?  This is perhaps the advantage for the 
> ActiveState versions of Perl/Python - I don't think they use cygwin at 
> all. (don't get me wrong, cygwin tools are great, I wouldn't try to use 
> Windows without them :)
> 
> Phil
>