Peter, Thanks for the comments. Please see inline . . . Peter Schow wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:19:24AM -0700, Jyri Virkki wrote: > >> I am sponsoring this fast track for Prashant Srinivasan. Details below. >> Appendix 2 is in the materials directory. >> >> >> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.64 07/13/07 SMI >> This information is Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems >> 1. Introduction >> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >> Including Ruby 1.8 with Solaris >> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >> Author: Prashant Srinivasan >> 1.3 Date of This Document: >> 16 October, 2007 >> 4. Technical Description >> >> Including Ruby 1.8 with Solaris >> > > Good stuff. > > 1. Who gets to write to the /var/ruby directory, where the gems > are maintained? The Ruby development model is tailored to the > individual downloading of gems, as they are needed. On a multi-user > system, this type of updating in a common directory might be > a problem. >
It's expected that the /var/ruby will be updated by an administrator, and non root users who need to install private(or sysadmin-unsupported) gems can install them into private directories. Chaining of system-wide and a private gem repositories is possible by tweaking the GEM_PATH variable. > 2. A bundled in Postgres extension would be be ideal, providing > the worthwhile linkage to the bundled Postgres database on > Solaris. > Thanks. We have a list of requested feature adds(which include memcached client and Apache mod ruby, among others). We will add Postgres into this list. We propose to tackle more features(Rails being one of the prominent), in upcoming integrations. > 3. Any interoperability issues with a Studio-compiled /usr/bin/ruby > and gems grabbed from the net that are built with gcc? > We don't know of any, at this time. Mongrel, for one, runs fine.(and any such potential problems will be avoided by using gcc). -ps -- Prashant Srinivasan F/OSS Enthusiast Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/prashant GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x82FBDE5A
