From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T01:19:36+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005?

Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
> Here are a few other minor arguments for MinGW:
> * availability: MinGW will not disappear the way VC6 did
> * redistribution: is it allowed to redistribute VC 2005 at all? And to bundle
>   it with other software? A "Ruby devel. kit" (in a similar spirit as Instant
>   Rails) including MSYS+MinGW is at least conceivable -- would it be legally
>   possible with VC?

A small addition to Mauricio's point: if a compiler is distributed with 
ruby, then that will benefit not just developers but users of software 
that depends on C code generators such as RubyInline.

(Personally, my interest is in Cgenerator and the RedShift simulation 
framework. There's no way to distribute a binary extension because the 
extension needs to be generated at run time according to the flow 
equations, guards, transitions, and other specifications provided in the 
user's ruby code.)

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