From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-07-31T08:49:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Groklaw says "Watch out, Ruby!"

John Lam (CLR) wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> There are quite a few stdlib libraries that are implemented in C -
> those are the ones that we need help with. We're making good progress
> on the built-in types (another dev on our team just checked in a
> nearly complete implementation for Hash yesterday).
There's a current discussion on ruby-core about packaging stdlib as gems 
- have you looked into that at all, or is that just not on the radar?

-- 
Alex