From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-10-30T08:20:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby's build system

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cies wrote:
> this would clearly have some disadvantages (difficulty of build ruby
> for a platform that has no ruby binaries yet), but it would be eating
> our own dog food though.
>=20

Selfhosting is a nice exercise in brain self-surgery, but I think it's
more practical to bootstrap using an external environment that's most
likely to be present. I'm not sure I'd like the ruby build process to
take too much time building a bloated miniruby just to build itself
again for no practical benefit whatsoever.

David Vallner


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