From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-03-17T23:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet another Windows installer

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 
> Well ... right now there are quite a few ways to run Ruby on the Windows 
> platform:
> 
> 1. The One-Click Ruby installer.
> 2. Instant Rails
> 3. A package from a vendor whose name I've forgotten that uses an old 
> version of Ruby and Rails to interface to PostgreSQL.
> 4. jRuby plus the Java Runtime Environment
> 5. IronRuby
> 6. Cygwin
> 7. "Yet another Windows installer"

Well, that's less than the Linux distributions in the world. :P

> As for "a compromise which everyone can accept", I would hope that at 
> some point, that would be IronRuby, since it comes from Microsoft. I 
> haven't heard much about the status of IronRuby recently, though.

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/17/ironruby_work_schedule/

That link has some info on IronRuby's status and schedule.

-- Phillip Gawlowski