From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2007-12-28T09:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Should Ruby1.9 default program suffix be changed?


On Dec 27, 2007, at 2:50 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Yeah ... it should install as "ruby19". And the other "executables" --
> erb, gem, irb, rake, rdoc, ri and testrb -- should get the same
> treatment. That way, if they land in /usr/local they won't overwrite
> existing software installed from source, and a Linux distro can  
> package
> them so they land in /usr without breaking anything.

I don't believe it should. This would spray stuff all around the  
filesystem, and people would get even more confused trying to remove  
it from their systems.

We already have --prefix to create sandboxed Ruby install. I say that  
we either say "not a problem" and change nothing, or we say "force  
them to sandbox" and somehow make --prefix a mandatory parameter to  
configure.

This release is already confusing enough...


Dave