It may be good enough but it's built for i386 and you get the features redhat chose to install with it. The one on my local machine is: ruby 1.8.6(2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [ i686-darwin9.1.0]. If nothing else it is compiled for i686 rather than i386 which means the compiler can use 686 instructions to build my version of ruby rather than be limited to 386 instructions in yours. If you build your own you can control what features are installed and the gems library will not mix with what ever gems redhat chose to install. (I don't remember if they actually install gems or not so I may be off base here.)
In any case, it's not that important, Just my feeling... On Jan 4, 2008 10:57 PM, Will Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- geoff
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