[V3dot10] [ab] Why ruby?

[stephane ducasse]

I was rethinking about it and I think that if you are building an  
infrastructure tools (ie people will rely on it).
You should write it in squeak else people may not want to invest on it.

Stef

On 10 févr. 07, at 07:45, Keith Hodges wrote:

> Some people have asked me why I chose to write auto-build in ruby.
>
> I think that my preferred solution for autobuild would be created  
> within gjallar, and this is  perhaps where the future lies.
>
> At the moment, my machine is not powerful enough to keep an image  
> running just for the auto-build side of things. Ruby has a really  
> cool file io library called rio which makes a lot of things very  
> easy,  so ruby it is for now.
>
> Keith
>
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