From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T06:52:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Building ruby with bcc32

Hi,

At Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:16:20 +0900,
Yusuf Celik wrote in [ruby-talk:259294]:
> >> bcc32 support will be obsolete.
> > 
> > May I ask the reason?
> So no reason, ok, fair enough.

* it doesn't support C89 standard (can't initialize aggregate
  types with dynamic values).

* tools (named as make.exe, grep.exe confusingly) work quirkily
  or curiously.

* the maintainer doesn't have enough time to keep the code up
  to date.

-- 
Nobu Nakada