From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-06-20T06:44:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Anybody using Ruby 1.6.x?

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Steven Jenkins wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Timothy Hunter wrote:
>>> Is
>>> any commonly-used Linux distro shipping with one of these versions of
>>> Ruby?
>>
>>
>> yes.  all the redhat enterprise linux distros.  this is the official
>> government os for certain departments - we have thousands of machines
>> running
>> 1.6.8, which is the official redhat rpm.  it's the bane of my existence.
>> anyone know who to talk to at redhat to convice them to use a more modern
>> ruby?
>
> You might try soliciting the Government Open Source Advisory Committee.
> (http://www.egovos.org/GOSAC). Maybe nominate yourself as the Ruby chair?
>
> There's also some DoD organization that deals with open source. I can't
> think of the name of it and couldn't find it in casual Googling, but you
> might be able to.

thanks steve - i'll look into it!

-a
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