From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-02-08T04:39:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ~/.gem ambiguity

On Feb 7, 4:39 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1.9.1, on the other hand, get gems installed in ~/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
>
> Oh gotcha thanks for pointing it out. I thought for some reason that
> they shared a bin directory.
>
> > 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 are supposed to be compatible.
>
> For me they have been all except ruby inline, whose generated .so files
> aren't compatible [and live in ~/.ruby_inline for all versions of ruby].
> Also I'm not sure if rev binaries are compatible with both
> simultaneously.

I should have highlighted "supposed" in my previous sentence, but that
something most of the users are aware of ;-)

RubyInline needs to be fixed to workaround that, definitely.

> But anyway I'm only using one version of 1.8 so we're ok there :)
>

I have multiple 1.8.6 versions installed, but zero for 1.8.7 ;-)

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena