From: mortench <mortench@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T08:00:32+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.5-21 released

Austin Ziegler skrev:
> Do you want to have a 64-bit Ruby on Windows eventually?
> If the answer is yes, MinGW is completely stalled on this matter. The
> only answer there is VC8.

The world is clearly moving rapidly towards 64 bit architectures. AMD
x86 chips has been 64 bits for years now, and even Intel got their acts
together with Core Duo 2 recently. Also the upcomming Microsoft Vista
will only have complete functionality on 64 bit and various other
software like Exchange will NOT work at all on 32bit machines.

Ruby should go for 64bit as well as soon as possible. I would prefer
Ruby on Windows to be compiled with VC8 for interoperability with .NET
and other Windows C++ libraries (sort of the whole point of a Windows
version) -, but if MinGW does not support 64 bit than I can't see any
other choice than VC8 anyway.

/ Morten