From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T13:59:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby VM Projects

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 05:54:41AM +0900, Mark Wassell wrote:
> There are a number of RubyVM machine projects some just starting, some
> 'almost' there, some very active and some dormant. See
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?VirtualMachineOptions
> 
> I am wondering if this is one area of Ruby that requires some form of
> coordination. I appreciate that this isn't the way that Ruby projects are
> handled in general but perhaps this can be an exception, at least until we
> get one VM project through the gate.

just based on my own experience and my own development model /
architecture. there is no way on earth that i could work together
with someone else at this stage of development. the core is just 
plain tiny, and it would be extremely difficult to coordinate a
team of people to work on it, i'm not certain it would be a good 
thing in any case as i don't really believe that it requires a
team in any case... admittedly in a few months the core library
layer will be finished and the String / Interger / Array classes
will all need to be written (in ruby of course :)), i guess this
work could be done by a team.

in any case, as hal and gabriele pointed out, the main reason
for the variety of projects is that they just don't overlap :)

cheers,
Alex