Re: ruby

[Wolfgang Jährling]

Moritz Schulte <moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de> wrote:
> It's quite some time ago since I created those packages when I started
> to make ruby more POSIX compliant.  Wolfgang took over the work, he
> can probably tell you more about the status of Ruby.

There is nothing new to tell about it.  I made some patches for the Ruby
CVS, most of them got applied, Matz (the maintainer of Ruby) is fixing
some portabillity problems himself, so that the next release (1.8 or
whatever) should work on GNU hopefully.  My interest in fixing it
decreased slightly as I'm mostly using Guile now, but I promise to
finish porting it.

> But I also would not advice you to use those packages, since they had
> some bugs.  Wolfgang can probably comment more on this.

Oh, they worked good enough for me to use them.  There was some bug
which broke irb, but this can easiely worked around in the irb code
itself (if one is too lazy to fix the real bug, which is in Ruby
itself).

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang

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