From: eastcoastcoder@...
Date: 2006-02-16T12:53:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Eating CPAN - Was Port A Library.

There are modules in CPAN that can do almost anything you need, and
most things that you don't.  Having access to them would make a lot of
Ruby tasks much easier!

May I make a suggestion:  Go the route of the Cygwin project.  Instead
of porting individual modules, build a bridge that let's Ruby invoke
and talk to Perl.  This would give us free access to (nearly) all of
CPAN.  It would also make migrating a lot of Perl apps easier.

Are there any major difficulties it building a Ruby <-> Perl bridge?
Allowing Ruby code to call Perl subroutines, pass vars back and forth,
etc.?