Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:13:47 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ruby gems, use ports or not? Message-ID: <8C9FFBDC-CBB8-4844-8534-FC5435BB5BB3@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <768690DD58883C4FAA0C089A534F94DF2054C0@intexch02.int.appriss.com> References: <44E1CB91.5070301@digitaltorque.ca> <768690DD58883C4FAA0C089A534F94DF2054C0@intexch02.int.appriss.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--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--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?8C9FFBDC-CBB8-4844-8534-FC5435BB5BB3>