Ruby? Look to rvm or rbenv. https://rvm.io/ https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv
There may be others, but those two are pretty tenable. Regarding Python, is there a viable competitor/alternative to virtualenv? Curious. Thanks. Cheers. -nick On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Oliver Gorwits <oli...@cpan.org> wrote: > Hi Edward, > > On 2013-03-11 19:11, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: >> >> I started following his rosy path, until the point "Now, you will >> have the joy of going through CPAN. In one of my early tries at this, >> WWW::Mechanize failed and gave a message that it refused to install >> without using "force." >> >> The whole installation process is bogus. I'm having a really hard >> time believing this is the correct state of the world. > > > It sounds like you've had years of teeth-grinding at the CPAN shell and I > don't blame you. However you'll be relieved to know the state of the world > has changed. > > > In Perl, the holy foursome of perlbrew, App::cpanminus, and (optionally) > local::lib and App::local::lib::helper, will allow you to install and > maintain independent, local Perl "environments". > > Create one or more self-contained Perl installations which live in $HOME or > elsewhere: > https://metacpan.org/module/perlbrew > > Install Perl modules *much* more easily and reliably: > https://metacpan.org/module/App::cpanminus > > The other two dists cater for other circumstances which I won't go into > here. > https://metacpan.org/module/local::lib > https://metacpan.org/module/App::local::lib::helper > > > In Python-land the very same thing exists and it's called "virtualenv": > http://www.virtualenv.org/ > > In Ruby I believe there are also a few, although I'm not familiar with any: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/486995/ruby-equivalent-of-virtualenv > > > p.s. +1 for Request Tracker 4 installed using Debian packages - you won't go > wrong with this option. > > HTH, > > regards, > oliver. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
