Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> I keep waiting for Ruby to mature and get past these packaging
> problems. I hope that one day it will be as well packaged as Perl.
> But years have rolled by and still the problems continue.
As someone watching from the outside of the Ruby world (well, standing on
the edge, really), I'm intrigued by the attempts of the Ruby developers
to solve problems such those relating to package versioning. ("I
know my application has been tested with version X of package A and
version Y of package B. That's what I want to deploy to my production
environment".) As far as I can tell this is mostly what pushes Ruby
applications to requiring a live connection for deployment.
It is possible to override this behaviour - but not recommended. It's also
a consequence of solving a different problem to that usually addressed
by package managers such as apt, rpm, emerge, etc. And the perl world
doesn't seem to have solved it at all (as I only too often discover to
my frustration).
Chris
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