From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-09-28T00:01:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem update on Windows is broken?

> Cool, thanks. I had no idea the new mingw version had come so far. 
> Where's the best place to track progress on it?
> 
> Do you think now is the time to switch or does it still feel a little 
> *too* edgey? If it's usable, but could do with testing help, I'd be more 
> that happy to help with that effort.

> As a side note, it's good to see you're using E Text Editor. Awesome 
> editor, eh? Did you see the new snippet pipes feature that was recently 
> rolled in? Here's a post I made about it to the CSS Discuss list with a 
> bunch of screencasts:

Well I can't take much credit--I wasn't actually the blog author :)

The only concern I have with mingw is that some binary extensions aren't 
available in a pre-built binary for mingw yet [sqlite, mysql, rmagick] 
so you have to install them with --platform=mswin32 which is...a little 
unstable.  Other than that I'm sure the OCI guys would love some extra 
testers and I've used it with success :)

You could track progress on the OCI mailing list and/or at 
http://github.com/luislavena/rubyinstaller/tree/master I believe.

Last I heard they were attempting to bundle it with an updated version 
of OpenSSL or what not.

Good luck.
-=R
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