From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-07-22T03:20:22+09:00 Subject: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? "Austin Ziegler" writes: > On 7/21/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: >> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Austin Ziegler wrote: >> > This is a non-issue. The people who want a Ruby+compiler combination >> > are wanting something unreasonable. Ruby should not come with a C/C++ >> > compiler under any circumstance. >> but building extension is a language feature - if what you say is true then >> ruby should not ship with mkmf.rb. > > No, Ara, it's not a language feature. It's something that *can* be > done, but you'll note that Ruby doesn't ship with a compiler on any > other platform. And don't tell me that that's because those other > platforms include compilers -- you don't put a compiler on a real > production machine. It's getting time the Ruby "compiler"/runtime-environment is rewritten in Ruby. :^) > A C/C++ compiler is wholly separate from Ruby and must be treated as such. > > -austin -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org