From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T01:51:53+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby in the government - 1.6.x -> 1.8.x woes

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the widespread adoption of ruby 
> in my lab is the fact what we've standardized on redhat enterprise for all 
 > of our boxen.

How unfortunate for you.

> it ships with 1.6.8.  this is a sorry state of affairs and i wonder
> why it should be so.

Because RedHat Linux is... well, let's just say I wouldn't run it by 
choice if they gave it away for free.

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server ships with Ruby 1.8.1, so it's clearly 
possible for a stable enterprise-level Linux to include a reasonably 
up-to-date Ruby. SuSE also ships with postfix as its mailer rather than 
RedHat's choice of the execrable sendmail.

> anyone know how to go about changing it?

Complain to RedHat. Tell them you're a dissatisfied customer considering 
switching to Novell's superior offering.


mathew
[ Opinions mine only, etc etc. ]
-- 
<URL:http://www.pobox.com/~meta/>
          WE HAVE TACOS