Berger, Daniel
11/17/2003 4:43:00 PM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 1:26 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available
>
>
> Question:
> Why would you want to use Microsoft's C/C++ compiler when gcc is
> available? No sarcasm. This is an honest question.
I think the discussion I've read so far of MS VC++ vs gcc misses the
point, so let me give everyone the "corporate" perspective.
First, I've never heard of cygwin/mingw being used in a corporate
setting. It's either *nix or Windows, not *nix on Windows. Even in a
mixed environment, such as the one I'm in, you would never develop a
Windows app under cygwin because you can't require that cygwin be
installed on the client's machine.
Second, I can't count on a shared object built under cygwin to work on
Windows without cygwin installed, even if I avoid fork. It's just not a
risk I'm willing to take.
Just my .02.
Regards,
Dan