On 12/26/2011 02:54 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
But Ruby suffers from being popular on platforms that lack a good package manager. That hurts it terribly on Debian because so many Ruby authors have written so much packaging code making it difficult or perhaps impossible to create a well behaved system package of it. It is difficult to use Ruby without a network connection in order to be able to download scripts on the fly from the network and run them on the fly as part of an installation.
Thanks for the warning. David