Last I checked, and granted this was over a year ago, IronRuby was not a very complete platform. I think targeting for MRI would be the simplest path.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Paul Nasrat <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/10/5 Markus <[email protected]>: >> >> >>> Interesting thought was running puppet on IronRuby, >> >> What's the benefit? MRI runs fine on MS Windows last I heard, and >> switching to Iron Ruby would surely introduce lots of little >> compatibility issues. But then, I missed that session, so I may be >> missing some key information. Am I? > > The main points of discussion were around allowing .NET developers to > integrate easily with custom providers and types, and to enable reuse > of existing management libraries available through .NET. It also > could potentially lower the barrier to entry as IIRC silverlight ships > with IronRuby. > > The initial efforts have been on the MRI on win32, and that'll > probably continue as it's more expedient, but I personally think that > puppet running on IronRuby is worth spending some time looking at, > similarly to Brice's work on JRuby. > > Paul > > > > -- Rein Henrichs http://reductivelabs.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
