From: MikkelFJ Date: 2003-02-07T07:54:59+09:00 Subject: Re: The way of the Gentoo "Yohanes Santoso" wrote in message news:87isvx85f2.fsf@jenny-gnome.dyndns.org... > rich package building tools. Unfortunately, many of the package > building tools are written in perl; it takes away some ego. Yet, this > is not a major problem since this affects only the package builder > (which probably is not the package author). Actually I can only see to languages for a Ruby installer: Ruby and C. On Windows it is not a given that you have perl so you have to install it first. I'm not going to install Perl to install Ruby. The same goes to Python. If I have to install something, that something has to be a prebuild Ruby core. C is omnipresent, although most Windows users won't have it. However, that path from C to binary is short. Serverside for the distribution mirrors I am completely indifferent towards what language is running. The ego side of using Python or Perl I could live with - first if Python helps Ruby grow that would only be poetic justice - second why rewrite good code? Of course you could have Perl or Python package managers, but then it would be a convenient add-on to Ruby, not something you could use in a deploy applications or even modules in general. Other than that, thanks for summarizing the situation. I'm a bit concerned about the quality of dependency checking in the various systems, but obviously you have been studying this a lot. Mikkel