From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-08-25T10:06:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20336] Re: New Windows InstallShield version of Ruby

On Friday 24 August 2001 05:52 pm, MikkelFJ wrote:
> "Andrew Hunt" <andy@toolshed.com> wrote in message
> news:200108242151.RAA15357@toolshed.com...
>
> > *sigh*.  This is one of the 65,536 reasons why I hate Windows -- DLL
> > hell.
>
> While I can contribute with many reasons for disapproving Windows - I think
> Cygwin is more to blame than Windows in this scenario.

Is Cygwin necessary? Wouldn't it be better to build this without relying on 
Cygwin? Can't Ruby be compiled using VC++ or MinGW?

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Ned Konz
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