From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2013-03-16T18:56:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53480] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #8058] RubyGems test failures under MinGW

(13/03/16 18:35), nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote:
> I can't remember the reason why ruby is used there, because of old command.com perhaps, I guess.
> We could assume cmd.exe nowadays.

It was for the case .def file is packaged, so it's difficult to
replace the command with Windows standard commands only.