Curt Hibbs wrote: >David Ross wrote: > > >>Binary releases are sometimes a problem, most of us are unix users, >>there are some windows users. >> >> > >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... > >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. > >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. > >Curt > > > > > 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 -- Hazzle free packages for Ruby? RPA is available from http://www.rubyarchive.org/