From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T02:09:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox!

On Mar 25, 12:29 pm, James Tucker <jftuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2008, at 13:14, Luis Lavena wrote:
>
> > To solve this I'll require a lot of deep tracing inside ruby, and I
> > still want to fix the redirected IO issues I had with Readline and
> > still noone replied.
>
> As you know Luis, I'm desperately trying to make time to come and help
> you, sort out some of the code i can donate, etc. Sadly, time is
> lacking.

I know about you James, and I'm not pointing fingers to anyone, but I
heard lot of folks scream that OCI have problems, but they, even have
plenty of C or Ruby knowledge, don't offer their help.

> Anyway, it seems this kind of project would be ideal for the
> Ruby Mendicant project.

from what I have seen the Mendicant project is aimed to other kind of
project and not GSoC or targeting Windows.

The only thing I'll like to add is: whatever code you write, please
try be the most cross-platform aware you can :-D

> I know there are a lot of the long-term
> rubyists who simply say "Oh we don't care about Windows" or "It's a
> broken platform" / whatever. The fact is, actually getting a
> performant stable interpreter on the platform would probably do more
> for the language than any other single action. Of course OCI download
> numbers from rubyforge can easily attest to this.

Yes, it seems that today, noone ever used or started computing running
over a M$ OS... DOS or even Windows.

All them reject their roots ;-)

I'll keep Windows as my main platform, since I'm quite comfortable
with it. To be honest the only language that give me so many troubles
with it is Ruby (and I can provide a long list of languages and tools
I have used since I started with computers late in the 80's).

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena