From: Eli Bendersky <eliben@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T16:06:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Overloading math operations

Frank Hirsch wrote:

> I am sitting here in a Hotel room with a newbought,
> virgin Windoze notebook. I don't even want to try
> to estimate how long it will take me to get the
> compiler, utilities and whatnot up and running to
> even _start_ to compile narray.
> But if I can get no-hassle installable binaries
> somewhere, I'll be happy to give it a chance.
> 
> Regards, Frank

Ah... the reason that made my avoid so many Perl modules in my time... I 
guess it's the same for Ruby. Perhaps it should be made a custom that 
every extension library has a pure-Ruby version. This is useful for 
prototyping - if one sees that the library fits his needs, he can later 
put in the effort to actually compile and bind the extension to his 
Ruby.

Perhaps a parallel for ActiveState's PPM (pre compiled modules) would be 
nice. Unfortunately, Ruby still has no ActiveState version. Anyone knows 
about plans to make it ?

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