From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2007-11-14T04:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: mingw rename

> I think the wide too many differences between *nix and Windows turn
> the cross-platform issue into something big and unmanageable.

> if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /djgpp|(cyg|ms|bcc)win|mingw/
>   # do windows specific stuff
> else
>   # to *nix stuff
> end

Right--this regex reminds me of perl somehow...

I was advocating that 'windows based' compilers should all have the
word 'win' in their name somewhere, for convenience.  Just my $0.02

if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win/
  print 'windows'
end

-Roger