From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-04-23T18:02:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14066] Re: Distributed Ruby and heterogeneous networks

Phil Tomson wrote:
> 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.

Marshal is implemented in C by "marshal.c" which is part of the Ruby 
distribution.



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