From: ajm@... (Andy Moreton)
Date: 2002-01-24T02:54:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows XP support

andy@toolshed.com (Andrew Hunt) wrote in <200201231549.g0NFnT906750
@toolshed.com>:

>
>Lyle says:
>
>    >I do not have access to a Windows XP box, and am not planning to 
upgrade
>    >anytime soon, so I haven't actually run the code on that OS. Note that 
this
>    >was a Cygwin-based build of Ruby and FXRuby; for the next Windows 
installer
>    >Andy's going with a Visual C++ (a.k.a. "native") build of Ruby and so I
>    >guess we can cross our fingers and see how that works on XP.
>
>
>There are known problems with Cygwin and Windows XP, 
>all we face with VC++ and XP are unknown problems.  
>So I'm crossing fingers and toes, as necesary :-)
>

Try checking back at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ as I believe the 
Windows XP issues have now been resolved.

    	AndyM

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