On Jun 30, 5:45 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > newcomer wrote: > > @Marnen: Thank you! I appreciate it a lot.. > > > The joy I feel after reading your reply, when things start to make > > sense.. this is great, thanks :) > > > wrote below.. > > > On Jun 30, 4:08 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > >> newcomer wrote: > > >> > started developing) might not be a good idea at all. > >> problem. > > > This one surprised me a bit as I heard many confident "no-no"s on > > this, though what you wrote sounds like good news. Naturally, best > > thing would be to try it out, just hesitated because of what I've > > heard on this subject.. (and besides, was also thrilled to get into > > Linux as well, though learning everything from scratch at the same > > time has it's pros and cons..) > > Er, I was talking about Mint Linux vs. Ubuntu Linux (which shouldn't be > a problem), not Windows vs. *nix (which might well cause problems). > >
Funny, just sent another question about that :) Got it, thanks.. will happily move to VM then.. > > > I did have another reason to go and install VM, though I'm not sure it > > was a correct one, short description as follows: > > > In one of the posts around I read about Cappuccino and it looked > > great, so wanted to try it out as well for my User Interface.. but the > > download instructions contain a shell script I'm supposed to be > > running (if I understood correctly), when not building from the source > > (being a Newbie and after reading a bit I assumed this was not for me > > yet). > > Anyway, when happily going to Cygwin to run the bootstrap.sh file I > > encountered the following message: > > > "Error: Narwhal is not compatible with your JVM. Please switch to the > > Sun (HotSpot) JVM and re-run bootstrap.sh" > > [...] > > This is probably better directed to a Cappuccino forum. yes, my embarrassment in sending stupid questions (like in this post) prevented me from asking them thus receiving answers. But after your replies I feel more confident to ask these :) Best, Nin. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.