From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2001-10-02T16:50:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21931] Re: Let's work on Windows support

On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 18:22, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> Folks:
> 
> We currently have a problem with Ruby under Windows. The Cygwin
> version shipped with the Installshield system is the most fully
> featured, but at the same time seems to be flaky in some situations
> (mostly due to Cygwin issues and the normal DLL hell). MinGW seems
> fairly solid, but there are rumors that it doesn't support all the
> background process stuff. The native VC++ version has less features,
> but is easier to integrate with third party DLLs such as Oracle.
> 
> So, I'm thinking we need to do some stuff. There seems to me to be a
> short term problem and a long term problem.
> 

What about support for other OS's than windows and unix/linux??  Right
now my girlfriend want's to learn programming, but she is using a mac
and therefore I can't teach her ruby.  Instead we will go to python
(after she is done with here c++-class :) ).

Doing it right would mean trying to get it to work on many platforms
from the beginning.  I just hope Ruby 2.0 is taking this approach.

/Erik

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