On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, mathew wrote: > Ara.T.Howard wrote: >> one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the widespread adoption of ruby in >> my lab is the fact what we've standardized on redhat enterprise for all of >> our boxen. > > How unfortunate for you. > >> it ships with 1.6.8. this is a sorry state of affairs and i wonder >> why it should be so. > > Because RedHat Linux is... well, let's just say I wouldn't run it by choice > if they gave it away for free. an of course enterprise is not... > SuSE Linux Enterprise Server ships with Ruby 1.8.1, so it's clearly possible > for a stable enterprise-level Linux to include a reasonably up-to-date Ruby. > SuSE also ships with postfix as its mailer rather than RedHat's choice of > the execrable sendmail. > >> anyone know how to go about changing it? > > Complain to RedHat. Tell them you're a dissatisfied customer considering > switching to Novell's superior offering. a reasonable solution. i guess i'm wondering if any rubyists out there are a point of contact for them or what - i don't understand how they interface to an open-source project like ruby. cheers. -a -- =============================================================================== | email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | phone :: 303.497.6469 | Your life dwells amoung the causes of death | Like a lamp standing in a strong breeze. --Nagarjuna ===============================================================================