From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T01:53:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone interested In IronRuby


On Sep 28, 2007, at 7:42 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

>
> A year or so ago -- Curt, Austin, correct me if I'm wrong here --  
> Curt Hibbs and Austin Ziegler tried to get a sensible behavior from  
> Microsoft so a "One-Click Installer" Ruby user could build gems  
> containing C source using the no-cost-but-non-free Microsoft C  
> compilers, along with building Ruby itself that way. It never  
> happened, and I wonder if IronRuby is the reason. Perhaps Microsoft  
> doesn't see the need for the regular open source MRI interpreter  
> now that there's IronRuby on the CLR. No matter how "willing"  
> Microsoft is to do things, there are always going to be things they  
> don't do

and msys is still there...

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