From: Awash in a Sea of Entropy <feoh@...>
Date: 2001-10-31T07:23:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23872] Re: Ruby's use of cygwin and commercial use!

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Armin Roehrl wrote:

> Dave, maybe you want to setup a "vote" for that on rubygarden.
> 
> I vote for mingw.
> 	Armin
> 
> >
> > Should the InstallShield version switch to mingw? We'd lose fork and
> > some popen functionality, but we'd also lose the cygwin issues.

I vote mingw.  cygwin is a great tool but is more trouble than it's
worth.  I'd prefer Ruby to be a more 'generic' Win32 platform when running
under Windows, and as it stands every time I install Ruby on a new system
I have to fight with cygwin1.dll issues because the Ruby install conflicts
with my current cygwin installation.

-Chris