From: Slavo Furman <slavof@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T17:22:36+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby

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Hello!

John is without doubt best person to answer such questions, I just like to
say that in his weblog post
"http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html" he says that:

"Some of you may be wondering why we are only accepting contributions into
the libraries and not the entire compiler. It's because IronRuby is built on
top of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), and the public interfaces to the
DLR are not complete at this time. Since the DLR will ship as part of the
CLR in the future, we cannot accept contributions into the IronRuby
compiler, at least initially. However, once the DLR matures and
reaches 1.0status with fully supported public interfaces, we will
*fully open up all parts of the IronRuby project for external contributions*
."

On separate note Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/) is open source and I
think that you can get IronRuby from RubyForge nad run it on it (if not
right now, then in future definitely).

thanks,
Slavo.


On 9/13/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
>
> Bill Kelly wrote:
> > So long as they are using a genuine open source license--which
> > it sounds like they are--I'm hard pressed to imagine any
> > catastrophic consequences from their efforts?
>
> I'd love some clarification on that end of things. The core classes are
> really public and you can contribute to them. The runtime (DLR plus some
> IronRuby internals) seem to be public but you can't contribute to it.
> And then of course Microsoft's CLR impl is not open source. I respect
> what John's trying to do opening up this project, but I worry about an
> OSS project built on progressively more closed foundations.
>
> - Charlie
>
>

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