From: MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@...1.dknet.dk>
Date: 2001-11-25T13:19:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26416] Re: The results are in...


"Dave Thomas" <Dave@pragmaticprogrammer.com> wrote in message
news:m2k7wghk1o.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com...
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>
> 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:
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>   Ruby under Windows should be:
>
>      A native MSVC application    44.40 % (119)
>      Built using MinGW            38.81 % (104)
>      Build using Cygwin           16.79 % (45)
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>      Total votes: 268

I didn't vote, so make that 120/269 :-)

Cygwin yields too many problems, but whatever solution that doesn't require
a separate Cygwin download and which links with standard dll's is fine.
Using MSVC 7.0 opens the possiblity for doing some crossplatform .NET
integration using managed C++ via Ruby's standard extension framework.
But it would problably suffer to have an extension DLL wrapper being written
in MSVC7.0 for accessing .NET objects while the core Ruby dist could be in
anything that likes standard DLL's.


MikkelFJ