From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T07:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Get your hands dirty: Help bootstrap Ruby on Windows.


On 3 Jan 2008, at 17:09, Luis Lavena wrote:

> On Jan 3, 6:57 pm, James Tucker <jftuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 Jan 2008, at 16:45, Bill Kelly 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?
>>
>> As low as he (we) can go. At the moment, it's in ruby (as per the  
>> code
>> presented and requirements), but some of my ideas had most of the
>> stack from a .cmd file - although that may be excessive.
>>
>> js or .vb via WSH anyone?
>>
>
> The idea is Bootstrap Ruby with Ruby, like Rubinius guys are doing.
>
> I must admit that have extensive batch files that I use to bootstrap
> ruby with VC6 at office, but maintain .CMD and workaround its
> limitations don't worth the effort.
>
> Also, we are using Ruby for the fun of it, right? ;-)

Right, shame one can't do the whole implement Jump, branch and then  
move on up thing though... ;-)

>
> --
> Luis Lavena
>