From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-03-14T21:06:46+09:00
Subject: Re: IDEA: Ruby "offline" CD / DVD

SoC material perhaps?

On 3/14/07, Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2007, at 08:15, Stian Haklev wrote:
> > Anyway, I'm throwing this out there, and wondering if it's a good
> > idea,
> > if you have any inputs etc. It might be hard to imagine how it is
> > to be
> > learning Ruby with no or almost no access to the network, but I can
> > tell
> > you that I would certainly pick up such a CD/DVD in a heartbeat, and I
> > think it would be really useful. I'd love nothing more than having a
> > generation of young creative minds in Indonesia (and other places)
> > growing up churning out beautiful Ruby code! (This idea could
> > obviously
> > be extended to covering other programming languages etc, but I'm a
> > Ruby
> > guy). Also distribution has to be thought of, but there are lots of
> > user
> > groups for Ruby/Ubuntu/Linux etc in Indonesia. And we could put it
> > up as
> > an ISO, so other user groups in other countries could distribute it as
> > they saw fit.
>
> This sounds like a brilliant idea. Getting a useful Ruby distro into
> the hands of as many programmers as possible would be really good for
> the growth of the community. If it could be configured so it all ran
> from the CD with Windows/MacOS X/*NIX that would be even better - the
> less that needs to be installed, the more that people would be
> willing to experiment.
>
> Ellie
>
> Eleanor McHugh
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