From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T03:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Compilation Madness

On Jan 3, 3:14 pm, James Tucker <jftuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of this has been said, some of it hasn't. I'm also not 100% on
> everything here, but please discuss.

Most of this topic have been covered by previous ruby-talk and ruby-
core posts

> This is poorly understood and
> needs documenting in order to really progress on the issue.

The thing is that this was already explained too many times, exposing
to library developers and average users where the problems resides,
what can be done, what couldn't be done and proposing some solutions
for it.

> Too many
> people I've heard saying "bah windows is too much of a pain" - but go
> onto rubyforge, and look at the OCI download numbers. Whatever you're
> feelings, that's far from irrelevant. The fact that only a handful of
> rubyists are actually capable of building ruby + all of ext/* is quite
> sickening, really (at least to me).

For me too, but every time I sent a message to get feedback, three
things happen:

A) don't get any reply (quite common)
B) "move to a real OS" not so funny comments wasting part of my time
invested (free) on ruby.
C) another long thread like this with all the problems windows users
face, the C-lib (MSVCRT) and all that, all over again.

No matter if I raise this discussion here (ruby-talk) or ruby-core,
almost every time get the same "feedback".

--
Luis Lavena