From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T05:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Get your hands dirty: Help bootstrap Ruby on Windows.

On Jan 3, 6:45 pm, Bill Kelly <bi...@cts.com> wrote:
> From: "Luis Lavena" <luislav...@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> > 1) VC6 vs. VC8 vs. MinGW have no room in this discussion. I took the
> > MinGW path since was the only one that could be bootstrapped from
> > scratch.
>
> Just to clarify... What does "bootstrapped from scratch" mean
> in this context?
>

Don't know if that is the right terminology (since I'm not a native
english speaker) but this means:

- Grab MinGW+MSYS
- Compile Ruby
- Package it
- Repeat!

Be usable so you can repeat the whole process with the new version of
the interpreter you just compiled :-)

So future version use the new one, is like what Rubinius is doing:
bootstrapping itself using a previous ruby installation.

Hope this clarify things a bit.
--
Luis Lavena