From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T10:41:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox!

Luis Lavena wrote:
> 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).

Long ago in a galaxy far away, there were *major* differences between 
the ActiveState version of Perl and other versions, even on Windows. In 
the end, someone sat on ActiveState about that and it got fixed. I think 
the same thing needs to happen to Ruby 1.8.x -- Ruby 1.8.x should be 
Ruby 1.8.x regardless of whether it's Cygwin, MSYS, DOS, Windown 
95/98/ME, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, etc.