From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2007-07-02T04:18:10+09:00
Subject: Re: apt-get installs 1.8.5 on ubuntu 7.0.4


On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:39 AM, D. Krmpotic wrote:

> 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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	Just wanted to pop in and say that ruby1.8.6 does not have a  
production worthy release yet, the latest release still has Thread  
deadlock bugs that are fixed in svn but not in any releases yet. I  
don't recommend using 1.8.6 yet until a release actually fixes the  
thread deadlocks issues.


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