From: "Bill C." <lists@...>
Date: 2013-05-18T08:27:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Mac OS 10.8.2 and openssl

Hey, I have a radical and crazy idea.

How about, instead of having every single person who wants to install 
ruby and gems on OSX have to jump through this stupid series of 
ridiculous hoops, the relatively few ruby DEVELOPERS actually fix the 
build configuration (for OS X and others as well)? The man-hours spent 
this way are all upside down. Fix it at the head, not at the tail. This 
kind of hopeless head-banging by all of us is an idiotic expectation.

The fact that "--with-openssl-dir" apparently throws meaningless errors 
(or are they meaningful, and how the hell are we supposed to know?) 
proves that ruby devs aren't minding the store.

Someone(s) who _understand(s)_ the "configure" and "automake" setup 
should actually provide documentation for --with-openssl-dir and 
--with-out-tcl and --with-out-tk and the dozens of other parameters that 
cause lots of errors that the build plows right through. Use these 
parameters at all and have the system bark at you. And expect them to 
have no effect as well, in my experience.

A ruby USER shouldn't have to know everything that the ruby DEVS do, but 
we are getting closer to it with every release. This is only one more 
thing to really make it a pain in the neck for every OSX ruby user out 
here. It almost feels like ruby devs want to make ruby such a pain to 
build or install that the rest of us will give up on it.

Better yet, Apple, how about releasing ruby 2.0 with your next iteration 
of OS X? OK, now I'm obviously hallucinating.

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