[ruby-core:22729] Re: Moving ruby 1.9.1 forward on windows

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Joel VanderWerf <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Charlie Savage wrote:
>>
>> 1. 澣he 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).
>

Packaging MinGW with OCI, while sounds tempting, put more in the plate
of One-Click Installer maintainers that goes a bit beyond the scope of
the project.

OCI will be built with MinGW, because several help mechanism has been
put in place that ease the build, test and release process for future
versions, but every developer should be able to pick a compiler to
create their project without being forced to one specific version of
it.

As a convenience tool, a devkit gem will be provided for those who
liek to install gems that are not binary-ready for Windows (gems from
source), but this will not be imposed or supported more than
occasional gem updates.

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Luis Lavena
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