Ruby is on Suse 7.0

Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly / hotmail.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / netlab.co.jp>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 5:19 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:7805] Re: Is Ruby part of any standard GNU Linux
distributions?


> "Pete McBreen, McBreen.Consulting" <mcbreenp / cadvision.com> wrote:
> >
> >Anybody know what it would take to get Ruby into the standard GNU Linux
> >distributions?
>
> What are the standard GNU distributions?  For Debian it just
> takes willingness for someone to do it...
>
> >I'm interested because I'm looking for a web hosting provider that
> >supports the use of Ruby. There is plenty of Perl/Python support, but
> >I've not found Ruby yet.
> >
> >Interestingly though, I found a provider that supports whatever is on
> >the standard RedHat Linux distribution. But Ruby doesn't appear to be on
> >RedHat 6.2.
>
> Red Hat's current distribution is 7.0.  (Yes, the one with a
> broken gcc that has Linus yelling at them.)  Ruby might be in
> there, check.
>
> >Would getting on the GNU Linux distributions be a good thing for Ruby?
> >Thoughts anyone?
>
> It is already in Debian. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
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