From: Michael Campbell Date: 2003-07-04T23:55:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby9i now available - general ruby extension question > > and what are the disadvantages (if any) of doing so? > > None that I can think of ... other than the fact that you can run cygwin > programs only under the cygwin environment. Thanks. I'll give that a shot. It's been a few years, but I've had experience with [Mm]akefile hacking, so that shouldn't be a huge issue.