From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T13:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How do I tell when I'm on Cygwin?

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> I have little nice to say about Cygwin when people bring it up as a
> solution, because it IS *NOT* a "solution" on Windows. It's a hack; a
> workaround. It's good to use when you absolutely must use Unix
> software that the developers have been too damned lazy to actually
> *port* the software to Windows.

Amen! But ... it's a boatload less expensive than Reflection X. :)

> If Matz, as usual, has a 1.8.6 release for Christmas (Matz?) I will be
> recommending Curt use MinGW to compile Ruby for Windows.

As opposed to a cross-compile with GCC 4.1.1 on a Linux system? Just out
of curiosity, how is the Ruby on a MacOS machine compiled? Then again,
if we are helping Microsoft get VC8 "Ruby Ready", should we be helping
MinGW too?