From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2002-02-23T03:56:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Installer Ruby 166-0 available



At 10:56 PM 2/22/2002 +0900, Andy wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>The first version of the MSVC version of the Ruby installer
>is now available at:
>
>http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ruby-install.html
>
>Note that this does *not* use Cygwin, so some I/O functionality
>will not be available.
>

Hmmm.  Please forgive my silly question, but does this mean that
the "installer" doesn't require cygwin, or that ruby doesn't
use cygwin?


If the latter, what is the major advantage(s) of creating a
"native win32" stream? Is there some pressing reason not to
use the cygwin dll?

One of the things I found frustrating when using Perl was that the Unix
stream (including that shipped with cygwin) shipped with different modules
than ActiveState's native port.  This meant that I needed to do a fair
amount of checking for "flavour".  One of the nice things I have found
about ruby is that, so far, this problem doesn't exist.

Is ruby is to go the same way as perl, in this respect?

Yours in curiosity,





-mark

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