From: Alan Moyer <moyer4@...>
Date: 2002-01-03T05:26:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30077] Re: Should the windows installation package be mswin32, instead of cygwin?

I would vote for that. I'm a newbee and I started out with cygwin and ended
up switching over to mswin32. Ruby itself is enough to swallow when you are
trying to learn something new. Unfortunately, the book makes the assumption
that you are under cygwin without explaining the options at all.

Al
"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote in message
news:DkuY7.138608$lV4.23058839@e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com...
> In article <utp43uo1mpevgvplv6vr68les0cf461uef@4ax.com>,
> Le Wang  <lewang@?> wrote:
> >
> >Now my question is this:  if the the installable executable is geared
> >towards newbies who are more accustomed to the windows way of doing
> >things, should it not include the mswin32 release instead of the
> >cygwin release?
> >
>
> Actually, I think that's the plan for Windows releases in the future (not
> to rely on cygwin).  There was a vote on this on Rubygarden.com a while
> back and some long threads here.  I'm not sure when we'll see this happen,
> but I suspect that it will be the next Windows binary release.
>
> Phil
>