From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-30T08:46:36+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby's build system

David Vallner wrote:
> Selfhosting is a nice exercise in brain self-surgery, but I think it's
> more practical to bootstrap using an external environment that's most
> likely to be present. I'm not sure I'd like the ruby build process to
> take too much time building a bloated miniruby just to build itself
> again for no practical benefit whatsoever.
> 
> David Vallner

Yeah, but ... "an external environment that's most likely to be present"
translates to "GNU/Linux/gcc", doesn't it? Which means MacOS and Windows
lag. A bootstrap using an existing "Pure Ruby" (Ruby plus Rake plus
RubyGems, etc.) makes a lot more sense.