I suppose I’ll probably get jumped on again for this, but I just couldn’t resist pointing out how weird it is.
As of right now (Tue Jun 17 11:09:13 PDT 2008), the “Ruby Enterprise Edition” download page contains the following little gem (green rounded boxes are my own addition, of course):
(In case there are problems with the image for anyone, the gist is that they list a download link as being for “All operating systems”, with a footnote that specifies that Windows and Mac OS X aren’t supported.)
I’m not trying to be a jerk about this, really. Hell, truth be told, I think it’s kind of great that they’re focusing on Linux instead of OS X or Windows — I’ve been a Linux user for a long time, and I certainly prefer it by a wide margin for production servers.
But c’mon, guys. “All operating systems” most decidedly does include Windows and Mac OS X. I think you’re doing good work, but you seem to be consistently over-selling the portability and generality of your solutions.
I think it’s easier to say “All operating systems (except Windows)” instead of “Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, VMS, HP-UX, …”, even if it’s only because the text would not otherwise fit into the web page. But hey, that’s just my opinion.