Re: Ruby 2.2 for Windows XP

From	"WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Subject	Re: Ruby 2.2 for Windows XP
Date	2015-11-12 03:02 +0000
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Robert Klemme wrote:

> On 08.11.2015 21:57, WJ wrote:
> >The version of Ruby 2.0 available from http://rubyinstaller.org/ works correctly
> >under Windows XP.
> >
> >However, 2.1 and 2.2 from that site don't run.
> >
> >Is there anywhere else to download 2.2 for Windows XP?
> 
> I use the Cygwin version (albeit not on XP) - that works
> pretty good. You do get a complete Unix like environment with
> it which might what you want - or not.
> 
> Generally I would recommend to move away from XP rather sooner
> than later.  Depending on what you want to do a VM with Linux
> might work, too.

I installed JRuby (which provides the equivalent of Ruby 2.2).
It seems to work correctly.  I'll use it when I need the extra
features of 2.2.

Windows XP seems preferable to Windows 10, which some call
spyware.  I can do everything I want under XP; "upgrading"
would just be a headache.

Both of my laptops have XP.  Recently I was transcoding some
videos copied from DVDs on the faster of the two. When
transcoding videos with a picture size of 352x480 (NTSC;
aspect ratio 4:3) without doing any rescaling or delacing, the
rate of transcoding was 500 frames per second using ffmpeg to
produce mpeg2 output. Blazing fast.  I have no need or desire
for a more bloated, sluggish version of Windows.

XP hasn't stopped working.  It's very unfortunate that some
software producers are almost forcing people to hand over
more money to the microsoft monoply.

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Ruby 2.2 for Windows XP "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-08 20:57 +0000
  Re: Ruby 2.2 for Windows XP Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-11-09 06:36 +0000
    Re: Ruby 2.2 for Windows XP James Pacheco <james.pacheco@gmail.com> - 2015-11-08 23:11 -0800
  Re: Ruby 2.2 for Windows XP Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2015-11-10 23:27 +0100
    Re: Ruby 2.2 for Windows XP "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-12 03:02 +0000
  Re: Ruby 2.2 for Windows XP dsmikej@gmail.com - 2019-01-08 06:04 -0800

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