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On Jan 18, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> Why wouldn't you want to do it with every available interpreter? That's
> what is implemented in gem2deb currently.

In an ideal world, it would be awesome if every Ruby library worked in every 
interpreter available. Unfortunately not all upstream developers use / test on 
every interpreter. For example Chef and other open source libraries by Opscode 
don't pass all tests on JRuby and Rubinius (possibly others). Incompatibilities 
between the interpreters are not encouraging.

> After what I've seen when working on gem2deb, I don't think that the
> situation is much better now. But I think that Debian could play a big
> role as a "sanitizer" for the Ruby community.


Debian is the basis of Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is a pretty heavily used Linux 
distribution for Cloud Computing. This drives adoption of the base platform in 
general, and with the popularity of Ruby on Rails, it reflects on Debian to 
play well with the community. I know the reputation Debian has with Ruby/Rails 
is not encouraging, but whos to say that can't be turned around with some 
simple changes, especially since they would be picked up rather quickly in 
Ubuntu's faster release cycle. While the Ruby/Rails community is small by 
comparison to other development communities, it is quite vocal, and the 
perception may reflect poorly, especially when the way to fix such perceived 
problems is relatively simple.

I'd love to see things improve, and I think the changes proposed in this thread 
do well to make wheezy a *very* promising release.

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Joshua Timberman, Technical Evangelist
IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: jtimberman

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