From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T06:20:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Development of Windows version of Ruby

> To the best of my knowledge, Ruby DOES work well on Windows.  I have
> written a fairly large Ruby program which runs on Windows and interfaces
> to a specific third-party DLL which in turn interfaces to a 3rd-party
> add-on card.  It worked fine.  The issue under discussion is not "how
> can we make Ruby work well under Windows".  The issue being discussed is
>
> "What can we do to make a program written to run under a UNIX OS, run
>  equally well under Windows".

Thanks very much for bringing some clarity to this thread. For the reasons
you elaborated, fork() should probably be marked as a platform-dependent
feature that shouldn't be used in portable Ruby code. It would be just as
unreasonable for me to write a Ruby program on Windows, using the Win32API
extension module, and then complain that it doesn't run under Linux.