Ruby and Lunar Linux

[Hal Fulton]

OK, now that Chuck Meade has weighed in, let me speak
a little more plainly. (BTW, if you are reading the
mailing list, you may not see his reply, which was to
the newsgroup. Mirroring is currently broken, I think.)

I don't wish to detract from Rubyx or the efforts of
Andrew W and others.

But it was Lunar, not Rubyx, that I was talking about.

I've been a Lunar enthusiast for several months now.
It's very fast and very stable, definitely a hacker's
platform.

The current app management system is in bash, but there
is talk of porting it to Ruby. Needless to say, I'm very
much in favor of that. Some porting work has already been
done by me and a couple of other developers.

Of course, in the process of porting, a lot of enhancement
will be done. You always learn from the first time. (One
of my friends once told me, "The way to write the best
possible system is: Write it once, throw it away, write it
again." There's some truth in that.)

So, any interested Rubyists can go to http://lunar-linux.org
for more information.

I have a feeling we'll be needing you.


Cheers,
Hal Fulton

 

[Chuck Mead]

OK, now that Chuck Meade has weighed in, let me speak
a little more plainly. (BTW, if you are reading the
mailing list, you may not see his reply, which was to
the newsgroup. Mirroring is currently broken, I think.)

I don't wish to detract from Rubyx or the efforts of
Andrew W and others.

But it was Lunar, not Rubyx, that I was talking about.

I've been a Lunar enthusiast for several months now.
It's very fast and very stable, definitely a hacker's
platform.

The current app management system is in bash, but there
is talk of porting it to Ruby. Needless to say, I'm very
much in favor of that. Some porting work has already been
done by me and a couple of other developers.

Of course, in the process of porting, a lot of enhancement
will be done. You always learn from the first time. (One
of my friends once told me, "The way to write the best
possible system is: Write it once, throw it away, write it
again." There's some truth in that.)

So, any interested Rubyists can go to http://lunar-linux.org
for more information.

I have a feeling we'll be needing you.

Thanx Hal!

 

[Andrew Walrond]

OK, now that Chuck Meade has weighed in, let me speak
a little more plainly. (BTW, if you are reading the
mailing list, you may not see his reply, which was to
the newsgroup. Mirroring is currently broken, I think.)

Indeed it is. A quick look using google groups show messages I have not
received fromm the ML. I'll reply to the those from there.

I don't wish to detract from Rubyx or the efforts of
Andrew W and others.

But it was Lunar, not Rubyx, that I was talking about.

Sorry! Didn't mean to hijack the thread

I've been a Lunar enthusiast for several months now.
It's very fast and very stable, definitely a hacker's
platform.

The current app management system is in bash, but there
is talk of porting it to Ruby. Needless to say, I'm very
much in favor of that. Some porting work has already been
done by me and a couple of other developers.

Rubyx was written in bash in the beginning, and called FTL. It's been ruby
based for quite a while now (I used it as an exercise to learn ruby
actually...)

Of course, in the process of porting, a lot of enhancement
will be done. You always learn from the first time. (One
of my friends once told me, "The way to write the best
possible system is: Write it once, throw it away, write it
again." There's some truth in that.)

Amen.

So, any interested Rubyists can go to http://lunar-linux.org
for more information.

I have a feeling we'll be needing you.

I'm off to take a look right now

 

[Chuck Mead]

Indeed it is. A quick look using google groups show messages I have not
received fromm the ML. I'll reply to the those from there.



Sorry! Didn't mean to hijack the thread




Rubyx was written in bash in the beginning, and called FTL. It's been ruby
based for quite a while now (I used it as an exercise to learn ruby
actually...)



Amen.




I'm off to take a look right now

Andrew,
If you have any direct questions we can be found in IRC on
freenode #lunar. Also at dbguin.lunar-linux.org:6667 #lunar-dev.

The Lunar community is global so there are people around most times of
the 24 hour clock.

 

[Hal Fulton]

Sorry! Didn't mean to hijack the thread

No apology needed, you didn't hijack anything.

I remembered Rubyx and sent you email this last night...
think it bounced. Maybe I typed the addr wrong.

And Lunar has never been mentioned until recently as far
as I am aware.

In any event, you can contribute to Lunar if you wish,
and I'd encourage it. I'm not certain Lunar and Rubyx are
competing things just because they both use Ruby.

But I'm throwing my lot in with Lunar. I like it, and I
intend to apply a good deal of my energy to it.

Hal

 

[Phil Tomson]

No apology needed, you didn't hijack anything.

I remembered Rubyx and sent you email this last night...
think it bounced. Maybe I typed the addr wrong.

And Lunar has never been mentioned until recently as far
as I am aware.

In any event, you can contribute to Lunar if you wish,
and I'd encourage it. I'm not certain Lunar and Rubyx are
competing things just because they both use Ruby.

But I'm throwing my lot in with Lunar. I like it, and I
intend to apply a good deal of my energy to it.

Well, if nothing else maybe Lunar could use Rubyx's Ruby-based init
system (which apparently is already working)... It's pretty much a
standalone subsystem so the more users the better. And it could save a
bit of effort.

Phil