Well I have done that, but I want ruby to be supported by my OS. The libraries that I run on it are simply much less important to me than the actual executable. I can ask the author of my library for support, or go fork their work and update it myself in a timely manner.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Lucas Nussbaum<lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote: > On 25/06/09 at 20:29 -0000, Darren Hinderer wrote: >> I have no need for ruby-support as you have described it. I think its >> fair to say that most of us are content to suck down our libraries >> direct from rubygems or even github. IMHO the ruby community is >> growing and moving too fast for ubuntu to try to manage all of the >> packages out there. In fact I'd rather go without - especially if it's >> slowing the release of the main ruby package. > > why don't you just compile ruby from source then? > -- > | Lucas Nussbaum > | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | > | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | > > -- > [needs-packaging] Ruby 1.9.1 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330268 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- [needs-packaging] Ruby 1.9.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330268 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs