From: Eli Green Date: 2001-10-31T08:12:53+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:23881] Re: Ruby's use of cygwin and commercial use! I would prefer MSVC, but given the choice between Cygwin and MinGW, I'd go for MinGW any day. I'll say it again for the benefit of the people who missed the thread a few weeks ago: Cygwin provides fork(). That's about it. Everything else can easily be written using native Windows syscalls. from Dave Thomas on 2001-10-31 at 07:03:04: > > OK - time to ask the question. > > Should the InstallShield version switch to mingw? We'd lose fork and > some popen functionality, but we'd also lose the cygwin issues. > > Let's decide. > > > Dave -- This will all be on the test. Please study it. Eli Green Codedogs