From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-01-24T02:56:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows XP support

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 10:49, Andrew Hunt wrote:
> 
> 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 :-)

What exactly are these known problems?  I have compiled/run AweMUD w/
Cygwin in WinXP just fine (granted, not the Ruby plugin yet).

Sean Etc.

> 
> /\ndy