From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2004-07-23T21:37:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14_RC5 (from Ruby 1.8.2 preview1)

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:26:58 +0900, gabriele renzi
<surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> wrote:

> just one thing: I'm not sure if this is just a sample or is closely
> related to the behaviour of the gem system, but should'nt it be:
> 
> Gem::Platform::WIN32::(MS|DJGPP|MINGW|LCC|WHATEVER) ?
> 
> different compiling toolchain are things to take in consideration.

Excellent point. I think it's true that binaries compiled with
Microsoft's compiler or the MinGW compiler are compatible with each
other; but I don't know if that's true for the other cases. Yet
another variable to throw in the mix. ;)