From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T02:58:07+09:00
Subject: Re: OS-independent build of ruby

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 13:42, Matt Gushee wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:11:12AM +0900, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > Woah, you want an executable - binary format - that is OS independent? 
> > That doesn't, and won't, exist;
> 
> It could: JRuby, anyone? 

I'm not familiar with JRuby, but if it works as I imagine, it's still
not binary portable; you need the vm on the target architecture. ~,^

> 
> Note that I'm not saying this is necessarily a good idea, just that it's
> possible.
> 
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> Matt Gushee
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