From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2005-02-05T21:05:33+09:00
Subject: Re: lack of reaction to latest ruby implementations

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:04:11 +0900, Alexander Kellett wrote:

> working on alternatives for the ruby runtime has
> to be about the most difficult tasks one could take
> on, and on top of that, the community interest doesn't
> really help.
> 
> maybe its just me but i expected *many* more emails in
> reply to the yarv and ruby2c releases!!!!!

Well, people with existing ruby code usually can't afford to drop to a
subset of the language, so that rules out ruby2c a lot of the time.

I hadn't heard of YARV before, and would love to try it, but having to run
a patched version of a development version of ruby rules that out, too. 
The version of ruby linked to from the YARV page won't even build and
install correctly here:  the ruby binary keeps ending up with the version
number of the ruby I already had installed, then the install rule
complains about the version-number mismatch.

So, I think it's too soon to look for feedback on these projects from
people interested in development with ruby, instead of development of ruby.

-- 
Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us

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