From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-09-15T17:43:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Get interpreter path

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
>
> Reading between the lines, it sounds like Michal has an application,
> including the Ruby interpreter, distributed on CD, and the users of this
> application (who might not want or be able to rely on the system ruby)
> want to copy it off onto their hard drives and run it from there.
>
> Is that right?

In that case, I'd distribute Ruby as an installer package for the
distributions I want to support:

- The Windows RubyInstaller
- .deb packages for Debian and derivatives
- .rpm packages for Fedora, OpenSUSE, and derivatives (RHEL,
SLED/SLES, and CentOS/SL as RHEL derivatives)
- Include the source for Ruby (GPL mandates access to the sources
anyway, if binaries are distribute, so might as well fill up the CD)
- Instructions to build from source, if no binary package is distributed

Let the users worry about how their systems are managed. That's why
package management/installers exist, after all!

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