From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-31T15:35:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23915] Re: New RubyGarden Poll: Windows support

In article <NCBBJBPADKGIOFLDNEALMEHKFFAA.curt@hibbs.com>,
Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:
>What would MinGW buy us over straight MSVC? Since MinGW ultimately uses the
>MSVC runtime, doesn't this just mean an extrat layer of overhead? Plus we
>would be limited to whatever api support MinGW happenned to pass through

MinGW (at least as far as I understand this) would still allow people to 
build extentions with gcc.  Not everyone can afford to have (or wants to 
have) MSVC++ on their systems.  It's important to have a free  option.

Phil