On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:36 -0600, Dan Wright wrote:
On 1/18/06, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote: Top posting is bad on mailing lists mkay?
On 1/18/06, Dan Wright <dwright134@gmail.com> 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosIs 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