From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T05:09:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Promoting Ruby [was  [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?]

Matt Lawrence wrote:
> Ruby, the distribution, needs more binary packages available.  I have over 
> 150 AIX systems that I would love to install Ruby on, but I know very 
> little about how to create a .bff (aka "installp" format) package.  And, 
> unfortunately, not a lot of time to mess with it.

Hmm, does it compile ok for you? Someone told me recently he had
problems on AIX.

I've created some intallp packages, but gosh, it's been years.

> IBM now distributes CDs of Open Source software along with their AIX 
> install CDs.  Getting Ruby onto those would be fantastic!

Now there's an idea. Maybe I can talk to someone over here. So many
of my IBM contacts are gone now, though.


Hal