From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-11-01T03:56:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24011] Re: New RubyGarden Poll: Windows support

In article <000501c161e5$bda72f20$d20d8a0a@mostro>,
Furio Filoseta Tlf <furifilo901@cantv.net> wrote:
>Is it REALLY that important to have a free option under Windows ? 
>
>The way I see it, and at least for application development, most Win
>developers have access to Visual Studio, so VC should be fine. Be fair,
>is there anyone doing Ruby innerworking on Windows that doesn't have
>Visual Studio ? Is really Ruby the ONLY Win project they work with ?

I'm working on a Win32 extensions project for Ruby - I do not have MSVC++ 
and since this is a home project, I really don't want to shell out the 
cash for it when gcc is working fine for me.  And yes, Ruby is the ONLY 
Win project I work with.  I primarily use Linux.  The Ruby Win32 
extension project grew out of some extensions I made for work.

It seems that there is a way to allow either MinGW or VC++ to be used as 
in Python - somebody else posted the link in this thread.  That may give 
us the best of both worlds.

Phil