I saw this the other day and though I would post a bit of it here. I am assuming that in this case beos/haiku is the same. I don't really have a lot of knowledge in this area but am suspecting that becoming supported again later would be a lot more difficult then finding a maintainer before it was dropped. Really loved BEOS, and recently have been learning Ruby so would love to be able to use both in the future. Summary: Ruby 1.9.0-3 is released From: "Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)" <yugui yugui.jp> == Platforms Ruby 1.9 no longer supports the following platforms because they have no active maintainer. * BeOS * WinCE * OS/2 * Interix * bcc32 * Classic MacOS * djgpp * VMS * human68k I will remove platform-specific codes for them from Ruby, unless someone become a maintainer by 25 Sep. Regards, - -- Yugui <yugui / yugui.jp> http://yugui.jp Full original post: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/309172 datatec