From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2010-01-25T17:11:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby bounties--list of bounties

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On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Aaron Patterson <
aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:

> I thought FFI was supposed to solve this problem.  Is it not?
>

It "solves" it to a certain degree, but when deploying in enterprise
environments it can be quite a hassle.  Think: ancient versions of RHEL with
ancient versions of libxml/libxslt.  That's not to mention problems with
32-bit vs 64-bit environments: for some reason the 64-bit version of RedHat
didn't package a 32-bit libxslt, but they did provide a 64-bit one.
However, we originally installed a 32-bit JRE.  Eep!  64-bit JRE is an
"unofficially supported" configuration for our environment (they typically
run 32-bit JRE on 64-bit RedHat for some reason).

Nokogiri's great and we have everything working now (we had to do some
symlink hackery though).  However, it would definitely streamline the
deployment process a lot if we didn't have native code dependencies, and
right now Nokogiri is the only one we have.

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Tony Arcieri
Medioh! A Kudelski Brand

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