Christian Neukirchen ha scritto:
> Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>On 6/4/05, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen / gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>But now, I'll ask you: Are you satisfied with the way installing Ruby
>>>extensions and libraries works?  Do you think there is a place for
>>>Package?  Do you have further improvements or can provide alternative
>>>ideas?
>>
>>I think that there is room for improvement, definitely. However, if
>>you're going to do extension support with this, it absolutely *must*
>>work perfectly well on Windows. It has to work better than setup.rb,
>>and setup.rb works mostly well for that. Gems, much less so.
> 
> 
> I don't think making the installer work on windows "perfectly" would
> be a hard job.  For building extensions, things look a bit
> different...  I'd certainly need a win32 expert for that.
> 
> How well does extconf.rb work on win32?
>

definitely fine.
But it would be great to have a builtin way to trick it so that 
extensions can be built with a different compiler than the one used for 
ruby (tipically  mingw extensions for mswin ruby)