From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T04:41:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby module distribution

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:35:17AM +0900, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:58:21AM +0900, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> > Third, I'm running a Debian system as my main server and 5
> > (sometimes more) RedHat 7.3 systems for other uses.  I'm using
> > apt-get (apt.freshrpms.com) to install and upgrade the RedHat
> > boxes.  If Ruby modules were available as RPMs, it would make
> > life much easier for me.
> 
> Matt, you can try out ALT Linux [1] -- 2.2 release will be
> available soon and it has apt-get, proper (well, mostly)
> dependencies in repository and growing choice of Ruby modules [2]:
> 
> trickster:~> apt-cache search ruby | egrep '(^(lib.*)?ruby)|(ruby$)' | wc -l
>      37
> 
> In fact, Ruby seems to gain more "system" status within the
> distro and its community hence the advice.  Of course, it's
> competing to RH7.3 rather than to Debian as in above :)

[Debian sid] 
batsman@tux-chan:~/video$ apt-cache search ruby | egrep '(^(lib.*)?ruby)|(ruby$)' | wc -l
    105

You're right about the latter :)


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