From: "D. Krmpotic" <david.krmpotic@...>
Date: 2007-07-01T19:39:47+09:00
Subject: Re: apt-get installs 1.8.5 on ubuntu 7.0.4

great.. so I'll compile Ruby from now on.. thank you very much!

david

Marc Heiler wrote:
> "The simplest long term solution is to not use ubuntu packages for
> ruby.  It installs from source very easily and you can always install
> whatever version you want.  In addition you don't have to learn or try
> to remember which package contains this and that core functionality
> that comes in the source install by default."
> 
> May I add to this :) that i compile ruby from source always, it is one 
> of the best-behaving packages for this (to me), much nicer than perl's 
> annoying default way to ask you quite many questions (although you can 
> suppress this, i still dont like it. I like gnu autoconfigure in this 
> regard..:)
> Ruby resides in /Programs/Ruby/Version and is symlinked to a central dir 
> (and libs). This way you can even switch to another version easily 
> ("Version" in this example is for instance 1.8.6)
> I am not saying the way is better than the traditional one, but for me 
> it works a lot nicer as the dir layout is more structure for me (and if 
> i want i can just remove the dir easily again. Btw for compiling i use 
> ruby scripts and a chroot jail)


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