From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T10:52:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Ben Giddings wrote:
> James "ruby talk" Britt wrote:
>> There are assorted technical and practical issues with having all site
>> grouped by a single TLD. A more significant matter, though,is that
>> every Ruby site is run or maintained by a fan/user/enthusiast.
> 
> 
> I don't think the technical issues should be too hard.  Apache, at 
> least, is happy to serve docs from multiple virtual hosts, and something 
> can be known as say rubyforge.org, www.rubyforge.org and 
> rubyforge.ruby-lang.org pretty easily.

Serving from the same machine is one thing; servicing requests when the 
sites are on physically distinct machines, under separate administrative 
control, is another.  I don't know enough about Apache to say for sure; 
it may be enough to engineer redirects to other sites so that a request 
for docs.ruby.org (or whatever) lands you on www.ruby-doc.org.


James