[ruby-talk:04176] Re: Ruby for MacOS?

Hi,

carbon wrote:

> Is anyone out there porting Ruby to the Macintosh Operating System?
> Thanks.

According to http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/whats.html it already has been,

"Ruby is highly portable: it is developed mostly on Linux, but works on
many types of UNIX, DOS, Windows 95/98/NT, Mac, BeOS, OS/2, etc."

Moreover, in the top directory of the development version of Ruby (the
easiest version for me to look at, at the moment), I find:

# grep -i 'mac[o6]' config* Make*
config.guess:    mac68k:NetBSD:*:*)
config.guess:    mac68k:OpenBSD:*:*)
config.sub:           | -macos* | -mpw* | -magic* | -mon960* | -lnews*)
config.sub:             os=`echo $os | sed -e 's|mac|macos|'`
config.sub:             os=-macos
config.sub:                     -mpw* | -macos*)
configure:        echo -n "MacOS X Server: "
configure.in:        echo -n "MacOS X Server: "

So my guess is that Ruby has already been ported to the MacOS, but that
you have to compile it up yourself.

--
Conrad Schneiker
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