From: Rob Sanheim Date: 2007-10-27T23:16:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Changes in Leopard On 10/27/07, Lee Packham wrote: > The thing you're all missing by installing your own build is the > DTrace functionality included in the build in OSX. > > Also Ruby doesn't change "that" much in 2 years. I don't see what the > problem is if I am honest. > The problem is for people working with Ruby for paying clients everyday. When a security update comes out in two months, and my production sites all start using it immediately, Leopard's version of Ruby becomes useless to me. I want to run the version that my clients are running in production, so I'll end up using macports again anyways (assuming the port is kept up to date), or just installing from source. It seems like Apple could've just preinstalled Ruby via macports, giving us integrated goodness _and_ the ability to upgrade for power users. I realize macports as its flaws, but I've used it to bootstrap 3 or 4 machines over the past month with a full Ruby/Rails/mysql/etc stack and it just works. - Rob