From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2007-04-03T07:07:03+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP in rubyforge?

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 00:25 +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> On 4/2/07, Kis Gell��rt Imre <kis.gellert@hev.ahh.gov.hu> wrote:
> 
> > i see in rubyforge this URL:
> > http://rubyforge.org/snippet/browse.php?by=lang���=17
> >
> > what is the php tag in the url?
> > if this is a ruby-website, why they are run php, not ruby?
> 
> I think the short answer is that, at the time RubyForge was
> established, the most appropriate software for running a site like it
> was GForge -- which happens to be written in PHP (and other languages,
> as I recall). There are at least a few possible Ruby-based
> replacements (like RedMine?) that are now available, but I can only
> imagine how much of a task it would be to migrate all of the existing
> projects hosted by RubyForge to a different system.

What Lyle said.

Yours,

Tom