From: BG - Ben Armstrong <BArmstrong@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T21:05:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Smart(er) platform detection

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:16 +0900, Matt Mower wrote:
> If not please either reply here or in a comment to the post including
> the output of
> 
>   ruby -e 'puts RUBY_PLATFORM'
> 
> and what you would expect ::OS, ::IMPL, and ::ARCH to be for your platform.

$ ruby platform.rb
Platform OS=vms, IMPL=vms, ARCH=alpha

Looks right to me.  What would IMPL would be if ruby ever runs on this
platform?

http://www.systella.fr/~bertrand/FreeVMS/indexGB.html

Would the answer to this question influence the choice of IMPL for an HP
(or DEC or Compaq) implementation of Ruby for VMS?  Or would it stay the
same?  I suppose we might have IMPL=vms now and IMPL=freevms later if
there are significant differences between the two.

Ben