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diff --git a/ruby_1_8_5/README b/ruby_1_8_5/README deleted file mode 100644 index cf836415ad..0000000000 --- a/ruby_1_8_5/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,114 +0,0 @@ -* What's Ruby - -Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and -easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to -process text files and to do system management tasks (as in -Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. - - -* Features of Ruby - - + Simple Syntax - + *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls) - + *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method) - + Operator Overloading - + Exception Handling - + Iterators and Closures - + Garbage Collection - + Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture) - + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS, - Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.) - - -* How to get Ruby - -The Ruby distribution files can be found in the following FTP site: - - ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ - -The latest source code of this version series can be checked out -through SVN with the following command: - - $ svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8_6/ - -The trunk of the Ruby source tree can be checked out with the -following command: - - $ svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/ ruby - -There are some other branches under development. Try the following -command and see the list of branches: - - $ svn ls http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ - - -* Ruby home-page - -The URL of the Ruby home-page is: - - http://www.ruby-lang.org/ - - -* Mailing list - -There is a mailing list to talk about Ruby. -To subscribe this list, please send the following phrase - - subscribe YourFirstName YourFamilyName -e.g. - subscribe Joseph Smith - -in the mail body (not subject) to the address <ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org>. - - -* How to compile and install - -This is what you need to do to compile and install Ruby: - - 1. If ./configure does not exist or is older than configure.in, - run autoconf to (re)generate configure. - - 2. Run ./configure, which will generate config.h and Makefile. - - 3. Edit defines.h if you need. Usually this step will not be needed. - - 4. Remove comment mark(#) before the module names from ext/Setup (or - add module names if not present), if you want to link modules - statically. - - If you don't want to compile non static extension modules - (probably on architectures which does not allow dynamic loading), - remove comment mark from the line "#option nodynamic" in - ext/Setup. - - 5. Run make. - - 6. Optionally, run 'make test' to check whether the compiled Ruby - interpreter works well. If you see the message "test succeeded", - your ruby works as it should (hopefully). - - 7. Run 'make install' - - You may have to be a super user to install ruby. - -If you fail to compile ruby, please send the detailed error report with -the error log and machine/OS type, to help others. - - -* Copying - -See the file COPYING. - - -* The Author - -Feel free to send comments and bug reports to the author. Here is the -author's latest mail address: - - matz@netlab.jp - -------------------------------------------------------- -created at: Thu Aug 3 11:57:36 JST 1995 -Local variables: -mode: indented-text -end: |