From: Jubilation <jubilation1@...>
Date: 2000-05-23T03:58:36+00:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02940] Re: What our Python friends are up to.

Right on the money.

I know python although I'm not a frequent user. I just started to follow
what's in here, but still I'm missing the point: What is special in Ruby?

So what will I benefit, if I start to use Ruby instead of Python? What will
I lose?

Just a few lines is enough. Thanks!

Kari



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"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> wrote in message
news:8ga0bf$j8n$1@news.jump.net...
> Hi,
>
> This is probably a borderline case, but I think it would be useful to
> occasionally post news of Perl and Python (and sometimes maybe even Lisp,
> Java, and Smalltalk) developments that might be of interest to Ruby fans.
>
> Conrad
>
> From: Guido van Rossum
> Subject: [PSA MEMBERS ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCE: Python CVS tree moved to
> SourceForge
>
> > I'm happy to announce that we've moved the Python CVS tree to
> > SourceForge.  SourceForge (www.sourceforge.net) is a free service to
> > Open Source developers run by VA Linux.
> >
> > The change has two advantages for us: (1) we no longer have to deal
> > with the mirrorring of our writable CVS repository to the read-only
> > mirror ar cvs.python.org (which will soon be decommissioned); (2) we
> > will be able to add new developers with checkin privileges.  In
> > addition, we benefit from the high visibility and availability of
> > SourceForge.
> >
> > Instructions on how to access the Python SourceForge tree are here:
> >
> >   http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=5470
> >
> > If you have an existing working tree that points to the cvs.python.org
> > repository, you may want to retarget it to the SourceForge tree.  This
> > can be done painlessly with Greg Ward's cvs_chroot script:
> >
> >   http://starship.python.net/~gward/python/
> >
> > The email notification to python-checkins@python.org still works
> > (although during the transition a few checkin messages may have been
> > lots).
> >
> > While I've got your attention, please remember that the proper
> > procedures to submit patches is described here:
> >
> >   http://www.python.org/patches/
> >
> > We've accumulated quite the backlog of patches to be processed during
> > the transition; we'll start working on these ASAP.
> >
> > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > PSA-Members-Announce@python.org
> > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psa-members-announce
>
>
>