Re: Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox!

On Mar 25, 12:29 pm, James Tucker <jftuc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 25 Mar 2008, at 13:14, Luis Lavena wrote:

To solve this I'll require a lot of deep tracing inside ruby, and I
still want to fix the redirected IO issues I had with Readline and
still noone replied.

As you know Luis, I'm desperately trying to make time to come and help
you, sort out some of the code i can donate, etc. Sadly, time is
lacking.

I know about you James, and I'm not pointing fingers to anyone, but I
heard lot of folks scream that OCI have problems, but they, even have
plenty of C or Ruby knowledge, don't offer their help.

Anyway, it seems this kind of project would be ideal for the
Ruby Mendicant project.

from what I have seen the Mendicant project is aimed to other kind of
project and not GSoC or targeting Windows.

The only thing I'll like to add is: whatever code you write, please
try be the most cross-platform aware you can :-D

I know there are a lot of the long-term
rubyists who simply say "Oh we don't care about Windows" or "It's a
broken platform" / whatever. The fact is, actually getting a
performant stable interpreter on the platform would probably do more
for the language than any other single action. Of course OCI download
numbers from rubyforge can easily attest to this.

Yes, it seems that today, noone ever used or started computing running
over a M$ OS... DOS or even Windows.

All them reject their roots ;-)

I'll keep Windows as my main platform, since I'm quite comfortable
with it. To be honest the only language that give me so many troubles
with it is Ruby (and I can provide a long list of languages and tools
I have used since I started with computers late in the 80's).

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena
.

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