On Mar 1, 9:13 pm, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote: > You know MacPorts is a source based package system? To be frank, I > don't understand the desire to install from source, it's just more > stuff you have to track for keeping up to date and secure. > > There are a lot of keen Rubyists helping maintain MacPorts versions, > so you get a very recent build, but with patches so that it actually > works better than the vanilla upstream installs. > > You might also want to have a look at MacRuby,http://www.macruby.org/ > which has some excellent performance characteristics for a 1.9 > install.
i'll have to take a look at both. i've tended to install from source for such things out of habit, but either way is fine. macruby does seem like a very good option for testing. thanks again, all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
