From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TLXPa-0003uY-JZ for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:51:44 +0200 Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Oct 2012 03:38:13 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,560,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="224101042" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.122.38]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Oct 2012 03:38:33 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: jackie.huang@windriver.com Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:38:32 +0100 Message-ID: <2072868.bxk9nbbmYZ@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.9.2 (Linux/3.2.0-31-generic-pae; KDE/4.9.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ruby: Add from OE-Classic and update to 1.9.3-p194 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:51:44 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Jackie, On Tuesday 09 October 2012 14:36:53 jackie.huang@windriver.com wrote: > From: Jackie Huang > > * I sent this months ago but was told that oe-core is not the right place, > however, we think it makes sense to add ruby to complete the scripting > language set of: python, perl, ruby, so I re-send it. I have to say, my opinion is the same now as it was then. Ruby support is certainly useful to have, and we have had requests for it; but unlike Perl and Python which are needed by many other things, nothing we have in OE-Core actually needs Ruby; thus it really belongs in another layer IMHO. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre