From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2009-06-11T02:55:33+09:00
Subject: Re: centos and ruby 1.9.1 - possible?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Joel
VanderWerf<vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Älphä Blüë wrote:
>>
>> Okay, if I decided to upgrade my 4.5 centos to 5.3 - what would be
>> involved - any ideas?
>
> but then you'd still be stuck with an obsolete ruby in the default repos,
> no?

Yes, but 3 things
1) 1.9 is still not %100 stable, it's still a moving target.
2) 5.x is insanely easier to maintain than 4.x
3) the dependent libraries are more up to date, so compiling from
source should be easier for both ruby & any gems or ruby libs that are
wanted.