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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:22:22 +0200
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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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>> How difficult would it be to use rails or merb in plan9? Is it feasible?
>
> Very difficult. No, not feasible. You would have to port Ruby. And
> then possibly rails, too. Plan 9 isn't UNIX, or UNIX-like, or POSIX
> (or POSIX-like). APE helps with some stuff, but not all the way.

I thought I'd seen a ruby port in the contrib list...
And if merb were just written (portably) in ruby, then, I thought, it
wouldn't have to be that difficult...

ruda