Curt Hibbs wrote:

>David Ross wrote:
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>>Binary releases are sometimes a problem, most of us are unix users,
>>there are some windows users.
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>I am a big proponent of being cross-platform *and* making things as easy as
>possible for end users to install and use. So, this is not intended to start
>any kind of competition or flame-war, mostly I'm just curious...
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>When I see the statement "most of us are unix users, there are some windows
>users" it makes me wonder whether or not this is really true. I'm involved
>in two major cross-platform Ruby projects: FreeRIDE and wxRuby. In both
>cases the windows downloads are higher than all the other platforms
>combined.
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>It would be interesting if there was a more reliable way to gauge Ruby's use
>on various platforms, but I don't know how that could be done.
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>Curt
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I don't have anything against windows, but now I will get a team 
together and have a group of people build binaries for windows users, 
now it consists of lypanov and me. Soon we shall have a binary 
revolution. To the Ruby Republic!

David Ross
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