From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2001-10-02T17:19:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21933] Re: Let's work on Windows support

On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 09:53, Eli Green wrote:
> from Erik B�gfors on 2001-10-02 at 04:50:06:
> > 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
> 
> Get MacOS X. :)

The only problem is that I would like it but I'm not sure she would :)

/Erik

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