From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 15:14:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B94A16A4E9 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:14:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B712243DA2 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:13:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2ED8B80C for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:13:48 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <768690DD58883C4FAA0C089A534F94DF2054C0@intexch02.int.appriss.com> References: <44E1CB91.5070301@digitaltorque.ca> <768690DD58883C4FAA0C089A534F94DF2054C0@intexch02.int.appriss.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-4--893514781; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: <8C9FFBDC-CBB8-4844-8534-FC5435BB5BB3@khera.org> From: Vivek Khera Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:13:47 -0400 To: freebsd ports X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: ruby gems, use ports or not? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:14:44 -0000 --Apple-Mail-4--893514781 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:52 AM, David Sledge wrote: > I installed rails using gems, I have not seen any problems with it > yet. I personally don't use ruby, but a similar situation exists with perl and the CPAN archives. I used to install all modules via CPAN directly, but in the long run it became very difficult to keep up-to- date across major perl upgrades, system upgrades, etc. It is my firm belief that you not mix and match like this: either install everything (ie, all of ruby + gems) by hand or everything using your package management system of choice. Anything else will eventually end up causing you confusion and difficulty in upgrades. It is for this very reason that I've been submitting quite a number of perl library ports rather than just using the CPAN install of them, which would have been easier short-term. --Apple-Mail-4--893514781--