From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-05-23T02:03:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby now comes with Cygwin installer

In article <bait2d$88sf$1@ID-193925.news.dfncis.de>,
Corinna Vinschen  <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
>robert.j.lally@jpmorgan.com wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> FYI: I upgraded my installation of cygwin a couple of days ago and I notice
>> that Ruby is now available via the installer. It's a pretty bare bones
>> install, but still - a step forward.
>> 
>> Only mentioning it because no-one else seemed to.
>
>Yes, I added a plain 1.6.8 to the Cygwin release.  I had just the
>usual(?) trouble with tcltklib so I had to release a new version
>a few days later.
>
>Actually I'm very new to Ruby (I'm just through up to chapter 18
>of the pickaxe book and wrote my first 5 or 6 scripts) but I was
>very excited about this new language and when I learned that it
>builds OOTB on Cygwin, I couldn't stop anymore :-)
>
>However, I'm open to criticism and suggestions if I did something
>wrong.  I'm a bit concerned about the "bare bones" wording...
>
>
>Corinna
>
>-- 
>Corinna Vinschen
>Cygwin Developer
>Red Hat, Inc.

Corinna,

Thanks and welcome to the Ruby community!

Perhaps by 'bare bones' he means that he would like to see more Ruby 
packages included?  Maybe you could install ruby_sumo along with Ruby.

Phil