From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-25T10:22:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20341] Re: New Windows InstallShield version of Ruby

Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

> 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?

At a loss of some functionality. It's a tradeoff.

Dave