From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-04-15T02:41:48+09:00
Subject: RubyInstaller for Windows [was: Instiki 0.5.0: IS there a step 2.5 :-) ?]

gabriele renzi wrote:
> >
> >Looks like win32-process would provide a 'fork' function on Windows.
> >
> >BTW: Why not include win32-process in the standard Ruby distro
> so that if
> >you're running Ruby on Windows and make a call to 'fork' it gets it from
> >win32-process?
>
> the same goes for win32-mmap and win32-etc probably..
> BTW having precompiled binaries of this extensions for ruby-mswin
> would be nice, cause IIRC I got a problem with
> ruby -rfake-mingw32 && make && make install

I will add these suggestions to our feature request list.

They won't make it in our next release (which is a bug-fix release and will
be out very soon), but we will consider them for the next release.

Curt