From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T03:11:53+09:00
Subject: [RH bug number] Re: ruby in the government - 1.6.x -> 1.8.x woes

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, mathew wrote:

> 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.

fyi.

i posted this bug

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170540

if anyone else can add support for it that'd be great.

-a
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