From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-04-23T12:40:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14056] Re: Distributed Ruby and heterogeneous networks

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010422193252.12109A-100000@relayer>,
Mathieu Bouchard  <matju@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Phil Tomson wrote:
>> 
>> In my experience you should be running the same version of Ruby and the 
>> same version of DRb on both client and server.  DRb is very dependent on 
>> marshalling (serialization) and it seems that the way certain types of 
>> objects are marshelled changes in some of the newer versions of Ruby.
>
>How about a version of DRb that uses Ruby source code instead of Marshal?
>

I'm not sure I understand the question.  It's my understanding that 
Marshal is part of Ruby and that DRb is written entirely in Ruby.

Phil