From: Bob Calco <robert.calco@...>
Date: 2002-06-28T01:45:10+09:00
Subject: RE: help (ruby-talk ML)

Yes, I would gladly volunteer considerable effort to this end. I have
considerable Windows System level programming that I'd like to contribute
to, particularly, the multithreading issues noted elsewhere as a weakness in
the distribution.

-- Bob Calco

-----Original Message-----
From: dave@thomases.com [mailto:dave@thomases.com]On Behalf Of Dave
Thomas
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:22 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Cc: Andy Hunt
Subject: Re: help (ruby-talk ML)


Benjamin Peterson <bjsp123@yahoo.com> writes:

> Enough clout to make their distro the standard: Most people search
> for 'ruby windows binary' and come up with all sorts of horrible
> things.  The PragProg distro *may* be the best Windows distro,
> (though ActiveScriptRuby is important), but it is only one of *four*
> links to win32 Ruby distros on the ruby-lang.org download page.  It
> feels futile to try and add windows-specific functions when there
> are so many competing distros many of which will never incorporate
> any new functionality.  With ActiveState Perl, though, it was
> possible to add lots of goodies, because you could pretty well
> assume the users would have them in their distro.

Which raises a question.

How can we open up the process so that the community can get involved
in the generation of the windows distribution? If we moved it to
(say) SourceForge would other folks be interested in helping out?


Cheers


Dave