From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-03-04T17:53:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Is JRuby dead?

Daniel V�lkerts wrote:
> Stefan Scholl wrote:
> 
>> First let me say what everybody wants to answer to the question in
>> the subject line: It just smells funny! :-)
> 
> I know, I know. After I've posted the thread I wondering if any native 
> speaker or others may understand my terrible school english ;). Please 
> apologize. I guess I have to write more english docs more frequently.

I guess Stefan is kidding you. There is nothing wrong with your English.
We do say a project is "dead" in English.

>> I don't exactly know what's going on, but there's some work done in
>> the CVS the last days/weeks. Browse the repository:
>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/jruby/jruby/

JRuby has always seemed like an interesting idea to me. But isn't it
true that this is an actual *different port* of Ruby, to the Java
"platform"?

For example, we lose the ability to use the existing C extensions,
do we not?

Hal