From: Guaracy Monteiro <guaracybm@...>
Date: 2001-11-24T13:52:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26294] Re: The results are in...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Thomas" <Dave@pragmaticprogrammer.com>
> 
> I left the latest RubyGarden poll running for a while, just to see how
> stable the result was. The answer is, it's pretty stable. People just
> don't seem to like Cygwin:
> 
> 
> 
>   Ruby under Windows should be:
> 
>      A native MSVC application    44.40 % (119)
>      Built using MinGW            38.81 % (104)
>      Build using Cygwin           16.79 % (45)
> 
>      Total votes: 268 
> 
> 
> So, I guess we'll be looking to change the bundled version to use an
> MSVC build. At the same, it's possible we may be moving away from
> InstallShield to use an OpenSource alternative.

try it
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm
- Full source code is available 
- Support for all 32-bit Windows versions in use today
- Supports creation of a single EXE 
- Customizable setup types .....

Guaracy