From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-17T22:41:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Building Ruby From Source?

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, David A. Black wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Tim Apple wrote:
>
>> I am new to Ruby, but fairly used to Linux. I was wondering if those
>> developing on Linux compile ruby, gems, and any other libs you may use from
>> source, or do you use the premade packages provided by your distro? Just
>> curious...
>
> I always compile Ruby from source, partly just to have control over
> exactly what I've got and partly as a vote of no-confidence in some of
> the silly packaging practices (splitting Ruby up into separate
> packages).

Oh, also: you can't use premade packages for all of these:
http://ruby-versions.net :-)


David

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