Marc-antoine Kruzik wrote:
> Hello !
> I'm working on Windows and I'm creating softwares.
> 
> I would create an exe file for a program written in Ruby 1.9.1.
> But Rubyscript2exe and Exerb are using Ruby 1.8.7 (or 1.8.6).
> 
> How can I create an exe file working on Windows for anybody ?
> Why are they so few informations and librairies to create exe files ?
> 
> 90% of computers in the world are Windows.
> Making cool softwares in Ruby will be useless if they can't work on 90%
> of computers...

You assume that the only way to run a Ruby program on Windows is to 
bundle it up with a 1.9.1 interpreter into an executable. Clearly that's 
not true. You can bundle a Ruby program with a 1.8.6/1.8.7 interpreter, 
or you can just install Ruby 1.9.1 and run all the Ruby programs you can 
lay your hands on. You also assume that cool software only runs on 
Windows. I can assure you that's not true.

I'd like to point out that Rubyscript2exe and Exerb are the work of 
volunteers. It may be true that 90% of the computers in the world are 
Windows, but if so, why aren't 90% of the volunteers contributing to 
Ruby from the Windows world? As near as I can tell there's just a 
handful - less than a hundred? less than 20? - of people with experience 
in Windows who are actively contributing to Ruby.

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