From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T00:34:48+09:00
Subject: Re: RPM of Ruby 1.8.x

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:21:27 +0900, Carl Youngblood
<carl.youngblood@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having a standard ruby RPM would do a lot to promote the wider
> availabiltiy and distribution of ruby.  Telling someone to install
> from source does not handle every contingency.

In fact, it only handles one:

Somebody who...
knows where to get the source
knows how to compile the source
has the tools to compile the source

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)