From: ale@... Date: 2001-12-20T03:05:16+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:28971] Re: A Ruby programmer walked into a bar ... On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Dave Thomas wrote: > "Harry Ohlsen" writes: > > > The real problem I see with this is that it would seem that > > something that is intended to be a standard part of Ruby (ie, > > OS-independent multithreading) doesn't work as one would expect on > > at least one OS, and certainly is not consistent across OSes. > > them to be fixed), but in order to get issues like the threading bugs > fixed we're going to need help from either Matz or Guy. > > Even though I don't personally use Windows, I've been pushing for > several months now to try to find a way to improve Ruby's support of > Windows. I still feel that this is a priority. The tests are there: > even getting Rubicon to run cleanly under Windows would be a big > win. As a community, we just need to put some resources behind getting > it done. That doesn't necessarily mean we need Matz or Guy full time > on Windows. There are plenty of things besides threading that can be > looked at, and most of those things are accessible to Windows > programmers. We just need to start looking at them. > Just an idea: when the organization around Ruby communities is being well and kicking maybe it should / could buy VMWare (or equivalent) and licenses to the other OSes people need or would like to have. And the people that could be given these should of course be the core developers in the first place (later maybe even some core team of testers). Even being able to compile the latest and being able run it against some Rubicon on some other OS would be great! I understand if someone doesn't want to touch any other OS than the one he has, but if anyone does there should be no excuses to help them around. - Aleksi