On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:36 -0600, Dan Wright wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Top posting is bad on mailing lists mkay?
>
> On 1/18/06, Dan Wright <dwright134@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
>
> Building source on an rpm based distribution is bad mmmm'kay
>
> It doesn't play nice with rpm/yum because there are no rpmdb
> entries
> for software installed from source. It makes updates tricky,
> and can
> have unexpected consequences depending on what is linked to
> first,
> path entries or overwritten files on update. It makes software
> audits
> more complicated in production environments. Etc,etc, etc.
> It's just
> not a nice thing to do to your server.
>
> </soapb
>
> --
> Jim Perrin
> System Architect - UIT
> Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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> Is this better? I apologize for my blatant disregard for proper
> mailing list etiquette mmm'kay. I guess we could also argue that all
> the white space in your post is a waste of bandwidth, but I degress.
>
> Well anyways..... Thank you for bringing to my attention that a newer
> version of ruby exists for CentOS. I was not aware of that fact.
>
----
we all have our pet peeves - mine is hard to read html mail - apparently
Jim's is top posted replies.
Anyway, I pretty much knew that I could install from source.
As for ruby - perhaps upstream is so focused on eclipse that it ignores
rails and thus ruby as a language might be fine at 1.8.1 but as those
who have checked it out, know that rails is a rapidly moving target and
upstream isn't covering it.
For those who have a few minutes to burn - you might want to check out
the interesting quicktime movies that they have which demonstrate ruby
on rails...
http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts
personally, I haven't seen anything as exciting since the release of
Netscape 2.0
;-)
Thanks
Craig
