Derek: That's sort of an unfortunate perspective on developer choice :P
That said, Philip: you should be aware that you're in for a world of hurt, but if you're doing RoR dev in windows already, i presume you know that. IMO, the best thing to remember is that the full stack is OPTIONAL. If there are bits that you are uninterested in carrying around, you should mix your own stack and carry that around. You will find people much more amenable to helping if you phrase your queries that way, rather than "OMGWFTBBQ y do stack include things that don't work on my system!" (merbists are aware that it's uncomfortable on windows. It's just that nobody in core uses win, and atm are really preoccupied w/ a bunch of other stuff, like merging) It's not that this isn't important, it's that it's not at the top of the priority list for a host of reasons. And TBH, as much as Merb is trying to push for more regularity and reliability in the Ruby world, it should, the responsibility for making Ruby run on Windows is not (wholly) and shouldn't be Merb's to bear. If yer interested in getting some more attention, and perhaps helping to push reliability on Windows, it'd be really useful to have a blog post or something on what your environment looks like and what things you've tripped across (i for one don't know terribly much about how Ruby runs on win). I don't know that it'd provide immediate returns for you, but you'd probably help a bunch of other people. And it'd probably get the ball rolling. We're all stronger if we work together. whaddya think? :) -Ted On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Derek Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Phlip wrote: >> How heavy and fragile must a leaf dependency get before y'all boot it out of >> the >> default stack? >> >> > A heavy and fragile dependency? Your talking about Windows here right? > I'd hate to have to depend on Windows for development... > > Derek > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
