Why are you surprised? The version that ships with CentOS 5 is, IMHO, quite reasonable - ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-linux]
Best of all, its supported by a commercial entity (CentOS packages lag behind RedHat Enterprise by about 2 days, I believe). Meaning that I, a lone developer/sysadmin , can spend my time building apps for my customers instead of recompiling Ruby. It's a case of "good enough". I suspect you'll also find this sentiment resonates with other small groups of developers. == Will Green Geoffrey Clements wrote: > I'm a little surprised. We always build things like ruby so we have a > bit more control over what is turned on or off. Most distributions > ship with a version of ruby (or python, or any other scripting > language) that is configured for their convenience rather than ours. > We build ruby on our development machines even though Macs ship with a > reasonable ruby installed. > > On Jan 3, 2008 5:20 PM, Jason Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > On Jan 3, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Will Green wrote: > > > CentOS 5 still ships with 1.8.5... > > > -- > geoff > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
