"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> writes: > 5. Finally, I'm not bashing Windows -- not today, anyway -- but let's provide > a similar level of functionality for Linux and others. True, but the Linux-based install is trivial compared to Windows--at least from a source distribution. I'd really like to focus on the Windows users in the short term--I think that has the biggest potential upside for Ruby. Longer term, we could discuss some innovative ways of distributing Ruby across all platforms (I had some ideas here, but they were _brutally_ rejected a while back. Brutally ;-) Dave