From: Jon <jon.forums@...>
Date: 2010-02-19T02:25:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28232] Re: Removing Syck from ruby

> > What are your plans for releasing and supporting binary gems, specifically, both mswin32 and mingw32 versions?
> > 
> > For those Windows users choosing the mingw32-based http://rubyinstaller.org/ MRI implementation, what specific help would you like?
> 
> *If* this happens (meaning I'm OK to remove Syck from Ruby), I'll
> convert it to use Luis Lavena's rake-compiler which makes cross
> compiling for mingw32 dead easy.  Don't worry, there will be windows
> support.  :-D

Great. Is there anything specific you'd like those of us regularly using the windows RubyInstaller to help with in the short term?

For example, I just cloned your repo and briefly looked at the Rakefile and extconf.rb and immediately thought it might be useful to hack up a non rake-compiler dependent "testing Rakefile + ??" that allows building-your-own-native-psych-gem (non fat) on windows with RubyInstaller and http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/development-kit just to see how things look.

Haven't looked into to see how much effort it would be, but would getting windows feedback earlier than you'd planned help, or slow you down at this stage?

Jon