From: Marc-antoine Kruzik <kadelfek@...>
Date: 2009-05-20T21:20:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Create an exe with Ruby 1.9.1

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Marc-antoine Kruzik wrote:
>> Making cool softwares in Ruby will be useless if they can't work on 90%
>> of computers...
> 
> You assume that the only way to run a Ruby program on Windows is to
> bundle it up with a 1.9.1 interpreter into an executable. Clearly that's
> not true. You can bundle a Ruby program with a 1.8.6/1.8.7 interpreter

Yes, I still have released programs written for Ruby 1.8.6.
But can I really run a program made with Ruby 1.9.1 ?


> You also assume that cool software only runs on
> Windows. I can assure you that's not true.

I didn't say that. I'm saying that cool softwares made with Ruby will 
have some difficulties to be released on all the platforms (I mean, 
Windows / Linux / Mac).
I have been working for years with Ruby. Now I'm creating softwares, but 
I'm stuck with Ruby 1.8.6.

If I use one method which only exists with Ruby 1.9.1 (ascii_only? by 
example), my exe program will not work (because Exerb and Rubyscript2exe 
are using 1.8.6).

And it's very sad, because 1.9.1 is faster than 1.8.6, and because the 
slowness of Ruby is one of its biggest problem (but I love Ruby !).


> I'd like to point out that Rubyscript2exe and Exerb are the work of
> volunteers. [...] less than a hundred? less than 20? - 
> of people with experience
> in Windows who are actively contributing to Ruby.

Yes, I knew it. But I didn't know there were so few people with 
experience in Windows contributing to Ruby.
And I think it's bad, because Ruby really deserves to be working on all 
platforms.
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