Hello.
I am wondering whether it would be possible to implement all the good things provided by the RubyInstaller project as packages for MSYS2. I am not an expert on RubyInstaller or MSYS2, but I think I understand the basic ideas, and there seems to be a lot of overlap in what the two projects provide. I think there could be very big advantages to using MSYS2 as the standard environment for running Ruby on Windows, mainly because of the package manager and the ease of compiling and installing libraries.
MSYS2 is a newer, more up-to-date alternative to MSYS. MSYS2 provides a Linux-like environment on Windows. You get bash, gcc, autotools, libtool, pkg-config, git, and a wide variety of other popular libraries and utilities. You get a package manager (pacman) to help you install these tools and keep them updated. Here is some more introductory information about MSYS2:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/25023611/28128 https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20introduction/
MSYS2 actually provides three di