On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:52:22 -0500, Steven A Bristol wrote: >> I'm constantly surprised by the number of Rails developers still using >> Windows. >> > > me too.
Yeah, shocking that there are still some people using the OS that has 90% of the desktop market share... :) FWIW, I have three Mac laptops. But for ergonomics, I need to work at a desktop, and there are still a decent number of Windows apps I prefer to their Mac equivalents. Only in the past year have Parallels and VM Fusion (and Adobe CS3 native!) made it really feasible for us hard-core Windows users to consider switching without starting from scratch. Personally, I've promised myself an 8-core Mac Pro Penryn this January, assuming the rumors are true. (Hopefully this won't start a platform war; I just wanted to remind people that developers with Windows desktops do exist, despite what you may see at RailsConf.) That said, building Ruby-plus-gems from scratch is so difficult and error-prone on Windows right now that *anyone* trying Rails is going to be using the One-Click Installer or Instant Rails or something like that. So if they were to start packaging SQLite (and maybe they already do), that could solve the problem without having differing Rails defaults. Honestly, I don't think MySQL has that much better mindshare on Windows. Either you're involved in open source, in which case you know about MySQL and Postgres and SQLite, or you're not, in which case you know about MS Access and Jet and SQL Server and whatever Microsoft's latest lite-desktop-SQL engine is called. Better to have one default everywhere. -- Jay Levitt | Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" 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/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
