Xie Hanjian wrote: > * John Goerzen <[email protected]> [2009-01-13 12:37:45 -0600]: > > Redmine requires only ruby 1.8.6 and rails 2.1.2, which are both stable > releases, so I think an upgrade of your ruby stack is very reasonable.
It also requires a newer version of rake than is in Debian. Not a problem as such, but you start working with gem install commands (and their friends), and eventually find that after spending 30 minutes installing/upgrading stuff, it bombs at the very end saying that some component needed a newer version of something than is available, and it can't install that component, so it's left the server hosed -- too new to run the old version, not ready to accept the new. Great. It ought to have checked the dependencies *before* messing with my system. And it ought not to have failed mysteriously anyhow. >> To anyone annoyed with Haskell's library install process: you have no >> idea how good you have it unless you've tried Ruby and rails. > > Disagree. Rubygems is fairly easy to use. At lease, I can guess how to It is completely poorly documented on how to gem install something when you don't have root. The gem(1) manpage is a joke. The online help doesn't help much either. Turns out there is a magic combination of undocumented environment variables and documented command-line options that does it. Or at least, I *thought* it does it. The other problem about Rails is that code and data are inseparably mixed. It will be just about impossible to install a rails app as a Debian package because it needs write access to its install directory, and this stuff is not easily configured to use /usr and /etc as appropriate. Anyhow, this is a Haskell list, so I'm not going to rant any more about this here. I can give you details off-list if you like. It's touched a nerve lately. -- John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
