[ruby-talk:5476] Re: Trouble setting up Ruby on Win98

Hi,

Aleksi wrote:

# Anders Schneiderman asked:
# > I'd like to start playing with Ruby, but I'm having trouble
# > sorting out what to download.  I'd like to find some precompiled
# > binaries that will let me run Ruby on Win98 and let me play w/
# > Ruby and Tk.
....
# Here's how I found some information for you:
....
# I guess it took me about the same time as for you to make the question.
....
# And I'm sure you also tried http://www.cygwin.com/ and just missed the
info
# at banner and main text :).
.....

I think it is useful to know how to search for stuff, but this is not
something that we should rely on or expect to be standard procedure for
people that just want to try out Ruby. There are often subtle dependency
gotchas involved in tracking stuff down for yourself, and the significance
or relevance of such things is not so obvious to people who have not been
party to past discussions or who haven't played with such stuff in the
past. Plus it is a time-consuming chore, which for the vast majority of
prospective Ruby users, is not exactly the best introduction to what we
otherwise promote in part as an extraordinarily convenient and
human-friendly language.

Hopefully much of this sort of information will soon find its way into the
Ruby Central super-FAQ.

Conrad Schneiker
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