From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-08-03T19:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Python; using python from within ruby

On 8/3/05, Norjee <Norjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! That might come in handy sometime. Though i mostly need my
> stuff to run on linux. That it works on windows is a nice pluss, as i
> develop on it ;)
> 
> But... I got ruby-python to run on win32. I messed up my entire windows
> setup by installing all kinds compilers and ruby / python ports, but in
> the end i got it working :)
> 
> I still have not recieved a response from the original author, so im
> not sure what to do with my modifications. I might publish them
> somewhere, though as i'm not able to maintain it that might not be too
> usefull (in the past few day's i've really gone crazy reading
> documentation that was just plain wrong. I don't want to add to that
> mess). On the other hand, there might be more people like me that want
> to use ruby, but the relatively little amount of avialable libraries
> holds them back. Especial for those wanting to use Rails. (For plain
> scripts one would ofcourse use "the right tool for the job", which
> would be the language the libraries are written in). In that case this
> extention might be a good solution for them too.
> 
> 
> 
You could of course, await the arrival of python and ruby compilers
that target the parrot VM[1] :-)

[1] www.parrotcode.org