From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-08-31T22:55:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for system administration

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Martin DeMello wrote:

> Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar> wrote:
>>
>> There is ruby-rpm: http://www.momonga-linux.org/~muraken/ruby-rpm/
>
> Yes, but it's out of date (the header files from redhat changed between
> 4.0 and 4.1).
>
>> For debian, dpkg-ruby, libdpkg-ruby.
>
> His point was that as a sysadmin he very carefully restricts himself to
> stuff that comes with a stock install of the OS/distribution. I was
> wondering if there were a way to work with the maintainers of Redhat,
> Debian, OSX etc to make sure the appropriate tool got included with
> ruby.

this is a great idea!  our sysads are the same.  if ruby came with redhat in
such a capacity - it'd be a huge boost to it's popularity there.

-a
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