From: Simon Conrad-Armes <curne@...> (Curne)
Date: 2004-10-11T18:00:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Definitive method for managing ruby installations


On Oct 9, 2004, at 6:54 AM, Carl Youngblood wrote:

> It seems like most ruby programmers build and install ruby from
> source.  At least that is what I gather from previous comments made on
> the list.  I'm wondering what the best way of keeping one's ruby
> installation up-to-date is, considering that with each new stable
> release one would have to reinstall all add-ons.  Granted, the new
> package management utilities like rpa and gems seem to have alleviated
> this problem somewhat, but it still seems like there should be a more
> automated way to upgrade one's installation without having to remember
> everything that was installed before.  What do you guys do?
>
> Thanks,
> Carl

Sitting on an OS X box (darwin), I make a package from source of 
ruby-1.8.2-preview2 as a staged install. Everything else I install as 
gems or direct install. I wish everything was gems, but sometimes I 
have to nitpick the files out when I want to remove them. A bit of a 
mess but my best option in lack of ruby pkgsys unification.

/Curne