From 0dc342de848a642ecce8db697b8fecd83a63e117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yugui Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:02:05 +0000 Subject: added tag v1_9_0_4 git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/tags/v1_9_0_4@18845 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- trunk/README | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 113 insertions(+) create mode 100644 trunk/README (limited to 'trunk/README') diff --git a/trunk/README b/trunk/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b898003937 --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/README @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +* 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 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 . + + +* 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. + + Some C compiler flags may be added by default depending on your + environment. Specify optflags=.. and warnflags=.. as necessary + to override them. + + 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: -- cgit v1.2.3