From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-11-25T13:41:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26423] Re: The results are in...

On Saturday 24 November 2001 09:46 pm, you wrote:
> "Mark Hahn" <mchahn@facelink.com> writes:
> > I think you accidently answered a question I posted earlier today.  Am I
> > too interpret this thread as saying that a Ruby compiled in Cygwin cannot
> > load a DLL compiled from MSVC?
> >
> > When I heard that Ruby could load either a .so or a .DLL I assumed the
> > .so was from cygwin and the .DLL was from MSVC (or compatible).  This is
> > wrong?
>
> It cannot load .dll's directly, although there is a technology that
> lets you wrap .DLLs into .so's
>
> I'm still surprised at the results of the poll.

Were we on the honor system?  Or was it not possible to vote more than once?
I would have liked to see the sources of the votes, e.g.:  Linux only, 
Windows only,  or Both

How many MSVC users voted for anything other than MSVC?  How many Linux only 
users didn't bother to vote?

>
>
> Dave