From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@...>
Date: 2004-09-03T02:15:13+09:00
Subject: Re: newer ruby for Tiger (OSX 10.4)?

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:59:56 +0900, Chad Fowler <chadfowler@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:32:00 +0900, Dick Davies
> <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, just wondered if ruby 1.8 will ship with OSX?
> >
> > As an additional question, how do you go about getting a newer
> > version into OSX? Do Apple just pick one?
> > 
> > --
> 
> According to someone we spoke to at OSCON, they pick the newest stable
> release at the time of their feature freeze.  This probably means
> 1.8.1.
> 
> Chad

i've heard this from other apple developers as well.  1.8.x would be a
safe assumption.  (finally!  much current ruby code requires a 'fink
install ruby' rather than the built-in 1.6.  personally, i would like
to see apple support updating their language runtimes for more than
just java via 'software update'.  this includes perl, python, and
ruby.

-z