Hello Everybody, I''ll like to know your thoughts about the new Development Kit (MinGW+MSYS). First I''ll like to explain the difficulties around it. 1) RubyInstaller (One-Click) is released under MIT/Ruby License. For that, RubyInstaller can no loner bundle gems or packages that are not license compatible (this includes GPL packages). LGPL like Dlls can be bundled without issues. 2) MinGW and MSYS are GPL For the distribution purposes, a new installer with a new codebase under GPL license needs to be created. Also the source version of MinGW needs to be distributed or offered, thus defeating the purpose of distribution of the Installer. Under that circumstance, I''ve been thinking on Roger Pack''s suggestion of a devkit gem. The gem, instead of bundle all those files (20MB worth of binaries) will include the recipes for downloading and unpacking both MinGW and MSYS and setting the proper batch files. This is something similar what rake-compiler does with "cross-ruby" task. Instead of bundling ruby code, it just downloads it. In that way, RubyInstaller will no need to split codebase, change licenses or anything. Suggestions? comments? I had this discussion with my lawer a couple of weeks ago but didn''t find the time to comment on this, sorry. Regards and happy new year to everybody! -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry