[fxruby-users] A word about compatibility with JRuby and Ruby 1.9

[Lyle Johnson]

All,

Due to a number of recent bug reports regarding FXRuby's compatibility  
with JRuby, I feel like I need to clear something up, and that's that  
FXRuby will never (well, "almost certainly never") work with JRuby.  
This problem isn't unique to FXRuby; it's true for any C/C++-based  
Ruby extension. See this page:

	http://jruby.codehaus.org/Limitations

for more information.

FXRuby seems to be mostly working under Ruby 1.9, although it has  
obviously had very little testing at this point since the official  
release of Ruby 1.9.0. What that means is that the FXRuby source code  
can be compiled against Ruby 1.9, and the resulting library will work.  
The FXRuby gem for Windows (i.e. the one that you get when you type  
"gem install fxruby") is built against Ruby 1.8.6, however, and it is  
most definitely *not* compatible with Ruby 1.9. Until there's a one- 
click installer for Ruby 1.9.0 on Windows, or some other reasonably  
authoritative source for builds of Ruby 1.9.0 on Windows, I probably  
won't release a gem for that version.

What we're beginning to see are some problems that I (and others)  
noted early on in the development of RubyGems, and that's that the  
system is pretty indiscriminate with regards to Ruby versions, OS  
versions, etc. The result is that it can make it difficult to know  
which components will work properly with each other. Hopefully this  
situation will improve over time.

Thanks,

Lyle

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