2008/8/4 Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, it's a patch that makes rubygems work better on systems with > update-alternatives, while you should aim at a global solution instead.
No I aim for the simplest solution that will solve the most pain in the shortest possible time. Others can then generalise that if they want. My time is paid for don't forget. >From an Ubuntu point of view a superior package is good, because it gives people a reason why they should use Ubuntu and switch to the package rather than continue to mess around with the source package as they do now. Certainly I'm not going to get my 200 odd customers to move away from source installation without a nice fat carrot to offer them. > I won't be the one making the final decision on this, but for this patch > to be added to the package, I would either want: > (a) that the patch is very, very small > (b) or that the patch is going to be integrated upstream in the near future Technically this isn't a patch. It is using the upstream designed interface to allow an operating system to add aspects to operations. That makes it much more stable over time. I'm asking upstream for their view on the binary clash problem. It's only going to get worse as more interpreters come on line. But it ain't going to happen quickly (certainly not by Augst 28) and in the meantime you have unhappy users of Debian/Ubuntu who would be made happy by what we have here - today. > What do you mean with "default rubygems package"? One like the package 'ruby' that installs the current 'system default' version. All I have is a rubygems package that depends upon rubygems1.8 and ruby so that I get the commands 'gem' and 'ruby' with the default 1.8 versions of each. The user gem mechanism is broken by the Debian packaging and that stops Rails 2.1 using it as it expects. -- Neil Wilson -- Add rubygems bin to PATH https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145267 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
