From: John Carter Date: 2002-10-23T09:13:06+09:00 Subject: Re: RAA.succ? On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Simon Cozens wrote: > John Carter writes: > > Because you can get stuck in a _very_ extended upgrade cycle as soon as > > you start sucking on any one package! Even worse the cycle is not > > gauranteed to land you with a mutually compatible set of module versions! > > I've never had that happen. Can you give an example? Can't remember what I started sucking on, (some tcp/web stuff I think) but wow did it take a long time to converge and even then it didn't work. Ended up with a broken perl suite. (In the end I downloaded a Bundle instead) > > What really is needed is a "Batteries Included" ruby distribution that > > will have all (reasonably) prime time RAA modules at the latest (mutually > > compatible) version. > > Who defines the best? Who said "best"? I didn't. I said "all". Ok, so I said "reasonable prime time", but I would advocate being generous in that definition. -- John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand Good Ideas: Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang-org - The best of perl,python,scheme without the pain. Valgrind - http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ - memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux Free your books - http://www.bookcrossing.com