From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-28T22:59:24+09:00
Subject: Re: question about Ruby initial development

Hi,

In message "question about Ruby initial development"
    on 02/08/28, Griff <griffph@aol.com> writes:

|   Somewhere in the Ruby FAQ it says that Ruby is developed on Linux
|using 'C'. Does anybody know which distribution of Linux was/is used
|for doing this, (a) in the original stages of development and (b) more
|recently ?

(a) I started the development of Ruby on Sony NEWS-OS 3.x (it is a BSD
    flavored UNIX).  Then moved to SunOS 4.x and Linux.  My first
    Linux was SLS Linux, when kernel version was somewhere around 0.99.

(b) I'm currently using Debian/GNU Linux (sid).

|   Also, presumably some Linux distributions are more compatible with
|Ruby than others ? (eg does anyone run Ruby on Slackware ?) - any
|guidance on this would be gratefully received.

If you use Debian, you almost never need to compile major Ruby related
programs.  They come as packages.  Thanks to the maintainers,
especially Akira Yamada.  But most of UNIX compatible OSes are as
compatible as Debian, if you compile programs by yourself.

							matz.