Re: splitting ruby

[James S. <jsi...@su...>]

> Now 2.4.0 is out, whats next?

A lot more work :-)  

> I think it might be a good idea to split ruby into 2 parts: the input side
> (mostly working) and the console parts (still under dev), and try to get
> the input side stuff into 2.4.1.

I agree except you will not see the rest of the input stuff go into
2.4.X. We will have to wait until 2.5.0. I have talked to Geert about this
as well. I think the best attack plan is:

1) Dump all the input drivers into the console system. 
2) Change all the fbdev drivers too. 
3) Change the console system.

I don't know if linus would be willing to dump all our work in at one
time. If he would be willing to do so then I would dump it all in. This of
course would require that we have partily working functionality on ALL
platforms. I can test the stuff on PPC, sparcs and alpha as well but
haven't yet. Plus I need to get into contact with the other platform
developers for this.