From: Julian Fitzell <julian-ml@...4.com>
Date: 2001-11-02T13:27:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24140] Re: New RubyGarden Poll: Windows  support

Well, I spend more than half my time in Windows and I don't have Visual Studio nor any desire to buy it or use it.

Admittedly I do most of my Ruby dev in Linux but that's only because it's currently more convenient to do so.

Julian


On 31/10/2001 at 5:26 PM Furio Filoseta Tlf wrote:

>Is it REALLY that important to have a free option under Windows ? 
>
>The way I see it, and at least for application development, most Win
>developers have access to Visual Studio, so VC should be fine. Be fair,
>is there anyone doing Ruby innerworking on Windows that doesn't have
>Visual Studio ? Is really Ruby the ONLY Win project they work with ?
>
>Adopting VC would make tons of sense to the non-MS zealots, since they
>would be able to brag about how Ruby is totally free on Linux, BSD, etc.
>but NOT under Windows, evil MS Windows. They of course would forget to
>mention that USING Ruby would still be free, and that it would only cost
>you if you wanted to tamper with Ruby itself. Not that many people
>really do that...