From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T21:53:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Development of Windows version of Ruby

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 13:39, Ron Jeffries wrote:
> Something like all the PC programs in the world are written for Windows.

Almost true

> Something like all the programmers in the world program on Windows.

Not at all true.  The number of developers that are using other systems
are quite large.

> Something like all the PC users in the world run Windows.

Almost true.
 
> Whether we like it or not, those statistics are pretty close to exact.
> 
> For Ruby to take on the stature it deserves, it needs to work well on Windows. 
> 
> Even more important, at least to me: if I'm to use it, it needs to work well on
> Windows.

My point here is that the number of developers on linux and other
unix-like os's are high.  Espesially if you compare to the total number
of users of systems like that.   Therefore ruby also needs to work well
for linux and other unix-like systems.

That doesn't mean that windows-support is not important.  However, if
there are so many developers on the windows-platform they should be able
to make ruby work better on windows.  I think I read somewhere that Matz
said "don't ask me about windows" which I interpret as "I don't do
windows but if other people does it that's great". (Correct me if I'm
wrong here).

So.. grab your windows-developer-friends and get to work on making ruby
better on windows, as Matz and other people works on making it better on
other systems.  Don't EXPECT ruby to work great on windows, MAKE it work
great on windows.

/Erik 
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