From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T04:58:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23745] Re: Some inspirations from REBOL

On Monday 29 October 2001 11:50 am, Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> > Well, there's already ruby/zlib.
>
> Which is something that requires a compiler and the zlib library and
> headers for. 

Not if you pre-compile it and distribute the DLL/.so

> Now try to do the same on Windows.  Sure I know 90% of the Ruby
> community hates Windows (including me), but regardless a lot of people
> still use that OS, especially at work (like me.)  So Windows support in
> Ruby and its libraries is really important to get Ruby accepted by the
> masses.  So assuming that everyone has a compiler and header files for
> every little C library out there is not going to work.

So just add ruby/zlib to the distro (just as Tk and DBM are handled now). 
Then the Windows DLLs that are distributed with the Windows binary will get 
built for zlib as well.

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Ned Konz
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