From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T05:13:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Promoting Ruby [was  [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Hal Fulton wrote:

> 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.

Umm, no, I don't have a C compiler.  I could install gcc, but I just 
haven't had time.  Among other things, the team decided that I'm "the" 
Linux guy, so I don't spend much time on the AIX systems.
 
> > 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.

There's a lot of that going around.  I have no idea how to make it happen, 
but, again, it would rock.

-- Matt
The American Non-Sequiteur Society:  We may not make sense, but we do like 
pizza.