From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T05:24:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Rebuilding Ruby, keeping the libs?

Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote:
> Maybe that has been asked already, but is it possible to rebuild Ruby 
> without sweeping all of the installed gems?
> I have mine in /usr/local so it's isolated from the old one.
> 
> Is that even feasible to try? Or the gems/libs will only link to the 
> interperter they have been built against?
> --Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
> please send all personal mail to
> me at julik.nl
> 

Gems should be very much exempt from any other package management. Gems 
without native libraries shouldn't need reinstallation, and probably 
neither the ones with native libraries - I don't think you're rebuilding 
the interpreter with severe API changes.

David Vallner