On Nov 11, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
Anyone porting ruby? Would anyone besides me use it? I have about five months of free time to work on projects. -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
Sorry for the late post, I have been busy with other things. Anyway, I am working on a port of Ruby 1.8.6 p111 to Plan 9. I have the miniruby interpreter compiled and linked. It appears to work OK but I have not stressed it very much. I will be working on completing the port of a statically linked Ruby interpreter. One feature I like about Ruby is the ability to add libraries of code that contain C code. Ruby does this through dynamic linking. Since Plan 9 doesn't support dynamic linking, (and I am not suggesting that it be added to Plan 9), what is the general consensus on how to achieve similar functionality without resorting to dynamic linking? Kim Shrier
