From: Andre Nathan <andre@...>
Date: 2004-05-01T00:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Opportunities and pitfalls; was "Introducing myself - Sascha	Ebach"

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:35, Mike Calder wrote:
> I use Linux, so of course I'm happy to download fifty-eight different source 
> code tarballs from nineteen different websites for all the options I want, 
> and configure, make, and install each of them (in the correct order so as not 
> to muck up pre-requisites), *then* manually add links to put the libraries in 
> the right place for my particular Linux distro, then copy files all over the 
> place when it doesn't work.

I'm using Mandrake right now. Installing ruby is as simple as typing a
single command. Same for ruby libraries.

At home I have gentoo and FreeBSD, and installing ruby on these OSs is a
matter of typing a single command too.

There are also packages for many ruby libraries on these OSs.

When ruby 1.8.1 was released, there was no Mandrake package yet. I
downloaded the source and compiled it, and everything worked fine. I've
also used manually compiled libraries mixed with standard OS packages.
Everything worked fine.

I have never had to create any symbolic links to make things work.

And have a look at rubygems[1]. It's promising.

Best regards,
Andre

[1]http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl

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