From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20245 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2002 15:36:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 20238 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2002 15:36:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21001.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.227.55) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2002 15:36:42 -0000 Message-ID: <20020710153642.47249.qmail@web21001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [130.127.121.212] by web21001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:36:42 PDT Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:24:00 -0000 From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Ruby for Cygwin [was Re: Concurrent versions of cygwin1.dll on on e system] To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" In-Reply-To: <30C9E24891FFD411B68A009027724CB702C04CDA@eg-002-015.eglin.af.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00819.txt.bz2 --- Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG wrote: > I can tell you that Ruby builds right out of the box. Simple > > ./configure > make > make install > > does the trick. It MUST be the ultimate in easy, as *I* can do it. > (Now they will go and change something just to make me look > dumber than I already do) > My point was that someone who uses Ruby should politely ask the author to submit his package for inclusion in the Cygwin distribution. This will save headaches for users in the future if they get their dll from one source. Besides, I've been wanting to check out Ruby at some point... Oh well, I guess we'll see... Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/