Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Ruby on the iPhone?

[Steven D. A. <st...@ar...>]

Yeah.  I agree without Apple's permission, loading the Ruby runtime  
into the iPhone would violate the EULA.  I do think there is a chance  
they could be talked into allowing this, but short of that, any  
solution would have to generate and link .o files in the same way  
Objective-C does.  It would be a Ruby compiler down to the bare metal,  
not a VM as the environment in which Ruby currently runs.

For all I know, Apple already has a bytecode-driven VM in the iPhone.   
If that is true, then the compiler could just compile to that bytecode  
and the problem is no different than the problems of, say, the Jruby  
project.  It's very similar with ARM, too, you just have to think of  
ARM's commands as the bytecode to use. :-)

On Mar 11, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Axel M. Roest wrote:

> At 23:21 -0400 10-03-2009, Steven Arnold wrote:
>> Disclaimer: IANAL, and for that reason this will be my last post on
>> the legal side of this issue.  My reading of the iPhone SDK agreement
>> below is my opinion only.
>
> I think it is more this part that's bothering us:
> 3.3.2 <stuff deleted>. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used
> in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by
> Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).
>
> As ruby is neither built-in, nor supported in the API, you're on  
> your own.
>
> just my 0.02...
>
> Axel
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