Are there downsides to this approach for Windows
users?
cygwin is huge has an awful interface and
has severe problems with having multiple
cygwin1.dll's on the same system.native compiles are by far my preference.
windows far from a single platform is *FAR*
more fragmented that linux will ever be.how many ruby windows sub-platforms exist
now in total? four or is it five now? how
can anyone be expected to help when all of
them suck in there own little way? (e.g,
1-click doesn't have a standard package
thats in base ruby - curses)Alex (who can't wait any longer to get his ibook and
remove both
windows *and* linux at long last)
I agree with you on Cygwin. I used it once and that's
all it took. Like cod liver oil the taste is still
with me, and it's not pleasant. Yuck.
I'm curious what you mean by sub-platforms? It seems
to me that it is in fact the Linux/Unix world that has
8-billion different platforms/packages/releases or
whatever. Windows does indeed have releases, but at
least they come from one place. If you support windows
2000 you're basically supporting Windows 2000, NT, and
XP... and that's your primary code base. For those
that are still using 98....uh, well, they need to get
a new computer.
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:18:31 +0900, Alexander Kellett wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:07:10AM +0900, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
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