From: Andrew Hunt <andy@...>
Date: 2002-07-03T09:10:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.7 for Windows?

    >> Are you jumping to Ruby 1.7.x for the next Windows installer or going with
    >> Ruby 1.6.7?
    >
    >Inquiring minds want to know!

Both.

My plan (bearing in mind the adage that "Man Plans, God Laughs") is to
have both 1.6.7 and 1.7 available.  I'm working on a new way of putting
distributions together that should make it *MUCH* faster and easier
to put new distros together in the future.  The first couple will
be a little lean and probably a little rough, but the framework
is in place so that it will just keep getting faster and faster :-)

Now, I am having some specific problems at the moment that any
generous folks could help me out with:

    * zlib: I compiled the library by hand, but now ruby-zlib complains
    of a syntax error in zlib.c line 93 'type'.

    * GDBM: I need a MS compilable version.  The gnuwin version that
    I found on the net only has gdbm.dll, and no .lib.  I could hand
    compile from the source version (as I did with zlib), but the
    prospect of doing so with *every* stinkin' package that comes up
    is not appealing.  Ideas and links are more than welcome.

thanks!

/\ndy