From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-10-02T10:31:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21912] Re: Let's work on Windows support


> I have not studied MinGW - but I guess it would be possible (as in not
> difficult) to get core Ruby to compile directly under Windows without any
> kind of third party support. I know there may be some socket issues and a
> few other issues - and I my be a good idea to grab some software from
> somewhere to solve such issues.
>
It certainly would since it is already working and has been for some times.
One thing I should point out which is a good sign of the importance of this
discution.
As a programmer I've comme to use and love the vim editor which is not only
extremely powerfull but also extremely fast and come under windows and unix.
This editor has builtin support for several scripting language, perl,
python, tcl and
ruby.  Well I managed to convince Bram Molenaar its author to include the
support
for the dynamically linked version of perl, python and tcl, but NOT for ruby
due to
the lack of a reasonably stable standard distribution for ruby.
Benoit
PS:
if you haven't tried vim I'll encourage you to do so and it comes with
coloration for ruby
and can be scripted in ruby if compiled with the appropriate features
PPS:
since ActiveState has done such a great job for perl, python and tcl I agree
that contacting
them would be a good idea.