From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-02T11:45:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30023] Re: Should the windows installation package be mswin32, instead of cygwin?

In article <utp43uo1mpevgvplv6vr68les0cf461uef@4ax.com>,
Le Wang  <lewang@?> wrote:
>
>Now my question is this:  if the the installable executable is geared
>towards newbies who are more accustomed to the windows way of doing
>things, should it not include the mswin32 release instead of the
>cygwin release?
>

Actually, I think that's the plan for Windows releases in the future (not 
to rely on cygwin).  There was a vote on this on Rubygarden.com a while 
back and some long threads here.  I'm not sure when we'll see this happen, 
but I suspect that it will be the next Windows binary release.

Phil