From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T21:49:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ByteCodeRuby 0.1.3

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:20:16 +0900, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
> On Thursday 19 December 2002 10:58, Shannon Fang wrote:
>> A lot of packages are distributed in source form, for example,
>> the ruby optimizer. Since I'm using windows, not linux, and am
>> not a hacker, when I tried to compile it using BC++, I always got
>> stuck, with some strange errors.
>> 
>> Is the any good samaritans can help the non-hacker groups by make
>> some binary distribution of these interesting packages?
> what about setting up cygwin and gcc? that's very easy to do
> (seriously).

It's also bloody useless for trying to do any *real* Windows
programming.

Repeat after me: cygwin is just a hack.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.12.19 at 07.48.49