From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2002-01-04T17:32:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30188] Re: Should the windows installation package be mswin32, instead of cygwin?

Thanks a lot I had just given up on that and used perl for the
specific problem :-(
Also I just read your thread and this is conforting me in what
I asked for when we where discussing the default win32 implementation
of ruby: ditch cygwin!
Benoit
"Le Wang" <lewang@?(nospam)?.bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:utp43uo1mpevgvplv6vr68les0cf461uef@4ax.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I just spent about 20 min trying to troubleshoot Benoit Cerrina's
> problem with xcopy and windows (see: 'Execing commands with
> backquotes' thread).  It turned out that the cygwin release had
> trouble interacting with native windows commands.
>
> 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?
>
> Perhaps some of the contents of the pickaxe book is predicated on the
> cygwin release, so maybe it could be offered in parallel...(but that
> would be confusing to a newbie too).
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> -lw