From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-03-19T06:44:53+09:00
Subject: Development of Windows version of Ruby

Now that we've dumped the cygwin requirement for the Windows version of 
Ruby and new releases are compiled with MSVC it apparently leaves some 
holes in functionality as compared to the Unix versions of Ruby.  For 
example, popen doesn't work anymore on Windows as of the 1.6.6 
release (does fork work?) because we used to rely  on Cygwin for this.

Are there any plans to patch these functionality holes?  Would Mingw help?
I'm just curious, I don't do much on Windows anymore, but I do think that 
some folks will miss some of this functionality and newbies who expect 
that it should be there could be disappointed.

Phil