From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2002-10-18T08:23:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on RedHat 8.0?

On Fri 18 Oct 2002 at 04:47:49 +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> Edward Wilson wrote:
> >Does anybody know whether Ruby made it into RedHat's last release
> >version 8 as it did with OS-X Jaguar?
> 
> Yes, it's Ruby 1.6.7. (I believe it was also there in the Red Hat 7.x 
> series).

It was introduced in Red Hat Linux 7.3, but the packages are rather
broken in where they expect extensions and whatnot to be located.

I maintain quite a large collection of Ruby RPMs, including many
extension libraries, at:

http://www.caliban.org/files/redhat/

The RPMS directory contains the binary RPMs, while the SRPMS directory
contains the source RPMs. The .spec files to almost all of them were
made by me, and they include Ruby 1.6.7, Ruby 1.7.3, rdtool, mod_ruby,
ri, ruby-dbi, ruby-ldap, SOAP4R and all kinds of other good stuff.

Ian
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Ian Macdonald               | A mathematician named Klein Thought the
ian@caliban.org             | Mobius band was divine.  Said he, "If you
                            | glue  The edges of two, You'll get a weird 
                            | bottle like mine! 
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