From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...>
Date: 2004-11-04T06:03:06+09:00
Subject: Re: OS X Tiger still including ruby 1.6

"When you include a library into
the base, it is diifucult giving out version changes unless you wish to
override and break other programs."

I disagree here.   CPAN.pm has been working seamlessly for many years.
  It's even self upgradeable.  You can even update modules in the base
distribution.   This stuff just has to be designed in.


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 23:59:51 +0900, David Ross <dross@code-exec.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > * rpa and/or rubygems installed by default.
> >
> This would be a bad for anyone to do. When you include a library into
> the base, it is diifucult giving out version changes unless you wish to
> override and break other programs. If the api changes, etc. One good
> exampe of this is SOAP4r, I've been using it for the past 6 months, and
> I have to override the base installation becuase it is in the base
> already. NaHi just can't simply throw it in stable-snapshot and people
> download the version. It has to most likely be with releases for the
> sake of compatibility and stability.
> 
> Neither packaging systems should be included at this time. rpa-base
> actually upgrades itself, but has no function to upgrade the system to
> tell the new software is installed. Like on most BSDs the software is
> taken off at uninstall by a series of checks and deletes. If there is a
> new version downloaded, the md5 sum of the file will be wrong and much
> will go wrong.
> 
> David Ross
> 
> 
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