On 03/04/2011 02:00 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 04 mars 2011 à 11:16 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> === Use alternatives to switch between Ruby implementations === >> There is a huge demand (see >> [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548917|#548917]]) >> for using alternatives to switch between Ruby implementations. This >> would provide a way to mimic what RVM provides in a cleaner way, and >> will help the Ruby community with moving to 1.9.x or other >> implementations. > > I think this would be asking for a disaster. A given version of the > distribution should provide a given version of /usr/bin/ruby. Otherwise > you’re just going to see third-party software (and often Debian > packages) break in horrible ways.
Indeed. You would want to define a default version and some 'supported' (but non-default) other versions. Again my recommendation - look at the way how these things are handled in Python (yeah, ignore the discussions around varoius Python helpers and so on). -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d70e872.2000...@bzed.de
