From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-07-31T06:17:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Groklaw says "Watch out, Ruby!"

Gregory Brown wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> 
>> Another question: is there any reason that, say, Rubinius' standard
>> libraries couldn't be used with IronRuby?  Has anyone looked?  What's
>> their implementation status at the moment?
> 
> The MRI stdlibs are (mostly) Ruby and should be freely reusable.  I'd
> be sort of surprised if alternative implementers bother implementing
> more than they have to with these, unless they need to tweak the
> existing libs for their implementations.
> 
I'm sure you're right, I can't see many technical reasons not to use the 
standard implementation.  However, John Lam is specifically asking for 
contributions to the IronRuby stdlib.  I don't know what assignments 
you'd have to make to get them accepted, and I haven't seen it discussed 
anywhere.  John, are you reading?  Can you give us a steer on this?

-- 
Alex