Hi guys. Im a developer/packager for Gentoo Linux [1] and I have been looking at packaging IronRuby. Within gentoo the long-term goal would be to have all >300 ruby packages ( could be anything from gems to applications ) supported by IronRuby (this also includes their unit tests [2]) and to have the ability to set IronRuby as the system ruby implementation ( ie no cruby just IronRuby ).
We have ways of supporting specific ruby implementations so minor compatibility issues wont be a problem. So don't start worrying :) Hopefully you guys are interested in this as I would like to get IronRuby into a state where it is easy to package. This leads me onto the following... I noticed that within your git repository you have the Microsoft.Dynamic and Scripting projects. I also believe that they are replicated in the IronPython tree but have different assembly version numbers. this is fine by itself but more concerned about pulling 2 version of a package from 2 different locations. Is there a master repository for these projects. Is it safe to package directly them from your repository ( ie have you made any changes to them? would ironpython have?) I also checked out your git repository and have noticed the some of the Rakefiles are missing. (eg Languages/Ruby/Rakefile ). It seems that you guys had continuous integration for mono but that website seems to be down. Thanks Alistair [1] Gentoo is a source-based linux distro, we compile everything from source. even things that don't get compiled like ruby/perl are "compiled". see www.gentoo.org for more. [2] From a ruby perspective the major benefit of [1] is that we can run the packages testsuite before we install the package. In rubys case we could run the testsuite against multiple implementations of ruby ( ruby18 ruby18 ree jruby and eventually ironruby with any luck) _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
