From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-02-01T10:09:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Is compatibility important for us?

* James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> [0237 00:37]:

to OP: I feel your pain (netbsd didn't have 1.8 until very
recently), but the latest 1.8 really is a big change from 1.6.
It saves a lot of bother (for the developer and the users) to
have the extra libraries available.

And it's really not a lot of work to build from source, only takes
about 15 minutes. You can play with that while nagging your distro
maintainer to upgrade :)

> Question for the group: Is there a lib or something that one could 
> install to boost a default 1.6 Ruby installation into behaving as if it 
> were 1.8?  A shim of some sort, one that doesn't require you to be root?

There's ruby-shim :)

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/shim-ruby16_18/

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