From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-01-21T22:26:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby ib Linux disrtos

* Tobias Reif (tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com) wrote:

> Thomas Hurst wrote:
>
> > Because there seems to be some confusion over the difference between
> > a package for Ruby being available for a system and it being
> > included as part of the core distribution, i.e, something you can't
> > remove easily, if at all.
>
> For a Ruby program to run, it doesn't matter if the interpreter is
> easily removable; it matter if it's there.

The original statement was:

"Python comes standard with Linux, and Ruby is an add-on."

to which you said:

"My Mandrake 8.1 came with Ruby."

But most systems do not (and should not) come with Ruby (or Python, or
even Perl, for that matter) as part of the base system (I was enquiring
as to whether this really was the case for Mdk), but as an addon, so
this way of thinking seems broken to me.

Now, there being more programs written in Python *might* increase
your chances of Python already being installed, but frankly I think
the differences are fairly negligible atm, especially concidering how
lightweight Ruby is.

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