From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-11-17T11:17:47+09:00
Subject: Ruby on OSX 10.3 (Panther)

In article <001301c3ab2f$f5470230$0500a8c0@abraham>,
Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@NOSPAMtalbott.ws> wrote:
>Thought this might be interesting to those stuck on win32...
>
>  http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/msvc.html
>
>Of course, I only care for so much longer, since my Powerbook is on order
>;-)

Another one makes the switch ;-)  At OSCON this summer it seemed like 
something close to half of the people had Powerbooks.  It certainly looks 
like OSX is making huge gains in the development community.

I'd really like to get one of those Powerbooks too, but can't seem to 
figure out how to either come up with the $$ or convince Apple to give me 
one ;-)  So when I was last at Fry's drooling over one of those 
new dual G5 boxes I did a 'ruby -v' at the commandline and found that it 
had version 1.6.8, not 1.8.0.  As I recall, we were trying to get 1.8.0 
out in time to make it into OSX 10.3 - were we just too late?


BTW: I also noticed that Ruby is on the Knoppix 3.3 CD (again it's 1.6.8) 
- I was kind of surprised (pleasantly) to find it there.

Phil