From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-03-08T11:14:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22728] Re: Moving ruby 1.9.1 forward on windows

Charlie Savage wrote:
> 1.  The average windows user does not have a C compiler installed and 
> isn't necessarily all that interested in getting one.

What about packaging mingw32 with ruby OCI? That would avoid the need 
for native gems, and it would permit run-time code generation (e.g. 
rubyinline and cgen).