From: Alex Young Date: 2007-07-31T06:25:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Groklaw says "Watch out, Ruby!" Gregory Brown wrote: > On 7/30/07, Alex Young wrote: >> Gregory Brown wrote: >>> On 7/30/07, Alex Young 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? > > Oh, he can't use the implementations because I think the license is > incompatible :-/ > That's why I mentioned rubinius - it's BSD-licensed, isn't it? -- Alex