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Complexity: philosophical considerations

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I think one issue with distri is complexity. You wrote that debian became too complicated/chaotic in many ways (internally; note that systemd also added complexity for what the user then...

[Documentation] Could the main readme briefly explain the difference between scumm-8 and scummvm?

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Could the main readme briefly explain the difference between scumm-8 and scummVM? Please feel free to close this issue here at any moment in time.

API proposal change: simplify some constants to symbols, such as Axlsx::STYLE_THIN_BORDER

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Heya there, I am going thorugh my old Axlsx specific code right now. I noticed I was using this border: Axlsx::STYLE_THIN_BORDER I tried to replace this via: border: :thin That...

Glimmer "store"?

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Hey Andy, Just another semi-suggestion or so - perhaps it may not make as much sense right now but who knows, in some months. I was recently looking at some...

[Idea/Suggestion - please feel free to ignore/close at any moment in time] Glimmer for the terminal?

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Heya Andy, Recently there was a question on the ruby reddit site: https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/vylge0/what_library_can_i_use_to_create_a_tui/ The shortish question asked by the threadstarter was: "[What library can I use to create a TUI"...

Hey there Andy, I see you have been busy with glimmer-swt now being at part 12 of the video tutorial series. I have a semi-"loose"-ish idea: in the event that...

Heya Andy, I see you are working on adding more videos to the glimmer suite; actually on SWT, such as your recent "Glimmer DSL for SWT Video Tutorial 6". I...

[Documentation] Would it be possible to mention which stdlib and add-ons are available on the ruby one click installer?

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Hey there Lars, I am using ruby on linux most of the time, things work fine there. On windows I use the one click installer. Now I spend most of...

[Documentation / Clarification] What happens if msys2 is not installed, can it be installed via "ridk" lateron, and what about multiple ruby versions including different vendors (jruby, GraalVM etc...)

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Hey Lars, The current README has this: "It therefore integrates well into MSYS2 after installation on the target system to provide a build-and-runtime environment for installation of gems with C-extensions."...

[Idea] Customizable rubyinstaller2

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Hey there, This is mostly an idea. Please feel free to close it. So I have been using ruby for a long long time. I have tons of scripts. I...