From: Steven Lumos <steven@...>
Date: 2005-10-16T05:42:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby in the government - 1.6.x -> 1.8.x woes

"Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Daniel Hobe wrote:
>
>> You can probably build a version that will work for you from these srpms
>> http://www.caliban.org/ruby/
>>
>> Hopefully you have a software management system in place to distribute
>> said rpms to all the hosts that need to be upgraded.
>
> boy - you must no work for the government ;-)
>
> there's less than zero chance that we could install non-official (rh
> sanctioned for our specific platform) rpms on our nodes - security ;-(
>
> cheers.
>
> -a

But... they run software written by you.  But... they won't run Ruby
built by you? Wow.  That's just.  Wow.

We have not so far had a problem dictating a version of Ruby which the
site installs themselves.  But then technically we deliver to
government contractors so I guess that's the difference.

Steve

P.S. Companies who have delivered an OS guaranteed to crash on
reaching N days of uptime: Microsoft, RedHat.