From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-11-12T11:13:16+09:00
Subject: Re: enterprise ruby

I believe Rubinius actually "fakes" the MRI extensions API so your
Ruby extensions should work just fine on rbx.

(Evan, Yehuda, or someone else smarter than I please chime in if
that's not true...)

--Jeremy

On Nov 11, 2007 7:13 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2007 6:39 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> > Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > > All of which misses my point.
> > >
> > > Unless and until extensions can be written which are portable against
> > > Ruby, JRuby, IronRuby, Rubinius ... the Ruby 'market' will be
> > > fragmented.
>
> > It's the very fact that Ruby extensions are written in C and compiled
> > with C compilers to shared libraries with very specific constraints that
> > limits their general applicability to other implementations (and limits
> > evolution of core Ruby development as well).
> >
> > So I would propose that what you're saying is right...and that writing
> > C-based extensions by hand just aggravates the problem, since C-based
> > extensions are never going to be generally applicable to all
> > implementations.
>
> Well I never said that portable extensions needed to be written in C.
>
> So maybe we should be rooting for Evan, and hope that we can soon be
> writing extensions in a ruby-like version of Squeak's Slang.
>
>
> --
> Rick DeNatale
>
> My blog on Ruby
> http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
>
>



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