From: vanjac12@... (Van Jacques)
Date: 2004-01-16T21:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8 on MAC OS X

digibren@mac.com (digibren) wrote in message news:<2b8f4dc2.0401012206.77e91330@posting.google.com>...
> vanjac12@yahoo.com (Van Jacques) wrote in message news:<70ae81fd.0312231630.7ef4a153@posting.google.com>...
> > Has anyone posted an installer package for ruby 1.8 for MAC OS X (10.2.8
> > in my case). I hope so. Is anyone working on this? If so, where?
> 
> Hi, I have a 1.8.0 binary installer with modules like readline built
> available at:
> http://homepage.mac.com/digibren/FileSharing1.html
> 
> I will try to update it for 1.8.1 soon.
> 
> On 10.2 I don't believe ruby 1.8 builds ootb, it sticks on a couple of
> modules, gdbm, and dl I believe (though these are optional, dl at
> least is pretty handy). on 10.2 it doesn't build readline support ootb
> either.
> 
> cheers,
> Brennan
> 
> (psst: check the archives next time) :)


Brennan;

I finally got around to installing your package (along with a lot of other
junk I wish I hadn't-or at least waited till later).

Thanks for the Ruby4Mac disk-image--this should be a lot of help
to MAC users who want to upgrade. It was one of those easy click
install things. I suggest you announce whenever you have
a package like this for MAC users.  Though I have no idea how much
work it is, as I have never done it.

I have a question though. It installed in a directory called supp.

supp/lib/ruby   seems to be where most of it is.

There is also a lot of other stuff like gettext which I don't understand.

I foolishly went install crazy and installed Fink and XFree86 (or XDarwin)
at the same time as your ruby4Mac package.
Fink put most of its stuff in a dir called sw, but I didn't explore where
things were until I installed all this, so now I'm not sure what installed
what where--esp. the X package.

Anyway, even though I have X installed (which I don't really need)
I am going to use the Terminal for a while, and it still runs ruby 1.6.7.

How do I get it to run ruby 1.8? I would like to keep 1.6.7
as backup for a while, till I'm sure things are ok with 1.8.
I also installed some things like extmath for ruby which need 1.8.

Do I move 1.8 to where 1.6 is, and move 1.6 somewhere else?
Or can I change the path or create a link to ruby 1.8?

I expose my ignorance and lack of experience with UNIX here,
but I guess one learns by just doing these things.

>(psst: check the archives next time) :)

Do you mean the ruby-talk archives, or just to do a search of
ruby for the MAC on the web. I did both (a while ago), and didn't see
anything like your package. I guess I missed something.

Again, thanks for your package and help.

Van Jacques