# Ironruby and Gentoo Linux **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [July 7, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197 "2010-07-07T14:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/1 "2010-07-07T14:28:13Z")
Hi guys. Im a developer/packager for Gentoo Linux [1] and I have been looking at packaging IronRuby. Within gentoo the long-term goal would be to have all > 300 ruby packages ( could be anything from gems to applications ) supported > by IronRuby (this also includes their unit tests [2]) and to have the > ability > to set IronRuby as the system ruby implementation ( ie no cruby just > IronRuby > ). We have ways of supporting specific ruby implementations so minor compatibility issues wont be a problem. So don’t start worrying 🙂 Hopefully you guys are interested in this as I would like to get IronRuby into a state where it is easy to package. This leads me onto the following… I noticed that within your git repository you have the Microsoft.Dynamic and Scripting projects. I also believe that they are replicated in the IronPython tree but have different assembly version numbers. this is fine by itself but more concerned about pulling 2 version of a package from 2 different locations. Is there a master repository for these projects. Is it safe to package directly them from your repository ( ie have you made any changes to them? would ironpython have?) I also checked out your git repository and have noticed the some of the Rakefiles are missing. (eg Languages/Ruby/Rakefile ). It seems that you guys had continuous integration for mono but that website seems to be down. Thanks Alistair [1] Gentoo is a source-based linux distro, we compile everything from source. even things that don’t get compiled like ruby/perl are “compiled”. see [www.gentoo.org](http://www.gentoo.org) for more. [2] From a ruby perspective the major benefit of [1] is that we can run the packages testsuite before we install the package. In rubys case we could run the testsuite against multiple implementations of ruby ( ruby18 ruby18 ree jruby and eventually ironruby with any luck) ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/2 "2010-07-07T18:54:08Z")
We are definitely interested! Please feel free to file bugs on CodePlex ([http://ironruby.codeplex.com/WorkItem/AdvancedList.aspx](http://ironruby.codeplex.com/WorkItem/AdvancedList.aspx)) whenever you find some compatibility issue (even minor - chances are it would be easy to fix). IronRuby is indeed accepting contributions so you can even send us a patch if you feel like fixing the issue. Unfortunately we don’t have resources to run automated tests on other OSes than Windows, although we would like to. If you could help us with that we would very much appreciate it. Regarding different versions of IronRuby and IronPython shared libraries… once in a while we synchronize our releases so that our languages can work together. The last time we did so was for IronRuby v1.0 ([http://ironruby.codeplex.com/releases/view/25901](http://ironruby.codeplex.com/releases/view/25901)) and IronPython v2.6.1 ([http://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/36280](http://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/36280)). We used to include IronPython in Ruby’s GIThub repo. I’m not sure why we don’t do so any more. We should. Let me check it out. Tomas ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/3 "2010-07-07T19:14:03Z")
We used to include IronPython in IronRuby’s repo in order to make sure it would work with us since IronPython had a different source layout. I removed it when IronPython removed most of their transforms, but I could add it if needed. DLR’s codeplex site should have all 3 projects in it, so that might be an option. While we don’t have resources to setup automated tests on other OSes, if you were able to help prepare a VHD for Hyper-V, I could try to get it into our systems (assuming I don’t get pushback from legal and so on :(). If you are interested, feel free to contact me directly and we’ll go from there. JD ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/4 "2010-07-07T19:38:03Z")
I think we should include IronPython in GIT repo since some of our interop tests depend on it. Tomas ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/5 "2010-07-07T22:12:00Z")
> We used to include IronPython in IronRuby’s repo in order to make sure it > would work with us since IronPython had a different source layout. I > removed it when IronPython removed most of their transforms, but I could > add it if needed. DLR’s codeplex site should have all 3 projects in it, so > that might be an option. I suppose that is completely up to you. What im more worried about is there being 2 parallel streams of development for DLR but from the sounds of it that doesn’t really occur. obviously my main effort will be packaging your releases which you sync anyway. > While we don’t have resources to setup automated > tests on other OSes, if you were able to help prepare a VHD for Hyper-V, I > could try to get it into our systems (assuming I don’t get pushback from > legal and so on :(). If you are interested, feel free to contact me > directly and we’ll go from there. I will be able to create ebuilds (the build scripts we use) that target your git repositories. Currently I have those “live” packages reinstalling (and doing an update) weekly on my system. In the future it might be nice to have more but it will do for now. I won’t be able to get ironruby into the tree at least until the next release of mono as it will not build with 2.6.4 (a mono bug I think you guys now about). but it does with mono trunk. Alistair. ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/6 "2010-07-11T22:42:22Z")
Ivan Porto C. (@casualjim) had a ci build for linux running at one time. You could check with him. I believe he was running off of mono trunk (2.7) at the time. ~ Ryan R. ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/7 "2010-07-13T02:00:16Z")
The rakefiles are gone, but we could figure out some way to specify a keyfile ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/8 "2010-07-13T03:02:54Z")
Our project build looks into dlr/Internal/MSSharedLibKey.snk for the key. If you can’t do that for some reason let us know. We can change the projects to accept an msbuild variable. Tomas ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Alistair\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alistair_B)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-and-gentoo-linux/191197/9 "2010-07-12T14:00:07Z")
> Ivan Porto C. (@casualjim) had a ci build for linux running at one > time. You could check with him. I believe he was running off of mono trunk > (2.7) at the time. Yes, I have seen his git repo and it looks a little out of date. I don’t think ive got much of a problem building ironruby. As I can already do it. The only things ive got to do is make the assemblies strong named so that they can be installed into the gac and to split the Microsoft.Dynamic and Scripting dlls into 1 or 2 separate packages. I’ll also want to submit any changes to do this back to ironruby. From what ive seen the Rakefiles doesn’t support specifying keyfiles so I’ll have to add that to their functionality. Alistair.