From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-04-24T01:07:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14081] Re: Distributed Ruby and heterogeneous networks


On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, 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.

I'm talking about the transmission format, and about changing it for
something similar to Data::Dumper (of Perl fame). One side would generate
ruby code from the datastructures and the other side would call eval() on
what it gets.

matju