Mac OS X and Japanese

[Mathieu Jobin]

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Hello I got two questions

1 - can I install freeride on OS X ? I have not find a download link for OS X
2 - can I type double-width chars in freeride ? I need it for japanese.

thanks

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[Dave Matuszek]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Mathieu Jobin wrote:

> Hello I got two questions
>
> 1 - can I install freeride on OS X ? I have not find a download  
> link for OS X

Not easily. As far as I can tell, the only reasonably simple
approach is to install DarwinPorts, http://darwinports.org/getdp/,
then go to http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?MacOS for
the command to get and install FreeRIDE. If you try this, let
me know how it works--I should do it also.

> 2 - can I type double-width chars in freeride ? I need it for  
> japanese.

Ruby itself uses ASCII (pretty strange, considering that the
inventor is himself Japanese), so I doubt that FreeRIDE allows
double-width characters.

Dave Matuszek

> thanks
>
> --
> Everyone is trying their hardest to do their job but management has  
> set it up so that it's impossible.
> Take the control over your money, track your expenses http://
> justbudget.com
>
> Mathieu
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[russellf]

David Matuszek wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Mathieu Jobin wrote:
>
>> Hello I got two questions
>>
>> 1 - can I install freeride on OS X ? I have not find a download  
>> link for OS X
>
> Not easily. As far as I can tell, the only reasonably simple
> approach is to install DarwinPorts, http://darwinports.org/getdp/,
> then go to http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?MacOS for
> the command to get and install FreeRIDE. If you try this, let
> me know how it works--I should do it also.
>

I tried this recently and killed it when it started to install a
different version of ruby (it did not figure out that the Apple supplied
version was installed).

Russell
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[Curt Hibbs-2]

On 6/7/06, Russell Fulton <r.fulton@...> wrote:

David Matuszek wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Mathieu Jobin wrote:
>
>> Hello I got two questions
>>
>> 1 - can I install freeride on OS X ? I have not find a download
>> link for OS X
>
> Not easily. As far as I can tell, the only reasonably simple
> approach is to install DarwinPorts, http://darwinports.org/getdp/ ,
> then go to http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?MacOS for
> the command to get and install FreeRIDE. If you try this, let
> me know how it works--I should do it also.
>

I tried this recently and killed it when it started to install a
different version of ruby (it did not figure out that the Apple supplied
version was installed).

Russell

1) FreeRIDE supplies its own version of Ruby strictly for running itself and does not interfere with any other version of Ruby installed (which is still used to run your Ruby programs). This is true an all platforms.

2) My understanding is that the version of Ruby included by Apple is broken, and you should replace it. This is independent of #1 above.

3) I'm not an Mac person, but I believe there are some special considerations for getting FXRuby/Fox working on OS X (this is what FreeRIDE uses for its GUI). Maybe this is no longer an issue... I don't know, but it used to be.

Curt

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