On Nov 20, 2:32 ¨Βν¬ ΑαςοΠαττεςσοΌαα®®®ΐτεξδεςμοφεναλιξη®γονΎ wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:26:15PM +0900, Luis Lavena wrote: > > On Nov 20, 12:11 ¨Βν¬ Βιμμ Χαμτοξ Όβιμμ®χαμ®®®ΐγθαςτες®ξετχςοτεΊ > > > Hi Luis, > > > > Luis Lavena wrote: > > > > First I'll like to explain why this took so long: > > > > That certainly gives me a more informed appreciation for just how much we, > > > I, owe you. ¨Βιτθουτ τθχοςλ ωου§φε δοξεΜυισνοστ γυςςεξΧιξδοχσβασε> > > users of Ruby wouldn't be. ¨Βιξγμυδεδ ¨Βθαξλ ωοφεςω νυγθ ζοςους > > > continued efforts. ¨Βαξναξω οτθεςσαςηςατεζυμ> > > > Best regards, > > > Bill > > > Thank you Bill and Tim for your kind words. > > > None of this will be possible without Curt Hibbs and Andy Hunt work > > all these years, I'm just doing maintenance :-) > > > I believe Ruby on Windows has much more potential than the continuous > > ranting from Linux or OSX developers and their arguments about it. > > > Whatever can be done to ease the path of transition, integration and > > co-existance, I'll go for it, that's my objective (besides trying to > > conquer the world, of course). > > Actually....... > > What I would really like is a service where I can upload a gem, it will > unpack the gem, then run the tests under windows. > There was Fire brigade: http://eigenclass.org/hiki/firebrigade-launched But looks no more operational. > I have my windows-less cross compilation working like a charm, but the > only thing keeping me from frolicking in a a windows-free world is makingure > my tests work. WINE is not a option for you? it could let you run the tests/specs as Windows. > Even if the server made strict assumptions like 'rake test' runs the > tests, that would be perfect (as long as I knew the assumptions ;-). > I'll like that too, cross platform CI sounds interesting, maybe a company will like to sponsor that? I know there is run.code.run, but is not cross platform and is not distributed. http://runcoderun.com/ -- Luis Lavena