Ruby 1.9 on Gentoo Linux

Ruby
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Just a quick question whether someone knows whether someone is working
on bringing Ruby 1.9 to my beloved Gentoo as an ebuild? The repos have
vanished and both forum and bugtracker over at Gentoo are silent as a
grave.

-sven

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Sven S. wrote:

Just a quick question whether someone knows whether someone is working
on bringing Ruby 1.9 to my beloved Gentoo as an ebuild? The repos have
vanished and both forum and bugtracker over at Gentoo are silent as a
grave.

-sven

There was an ebuild at one time, but I don’t know what happened to it. I
also don’t know if any of the Gentoo developers are working on 1.8.7.

My guess is that there is one or at most two Gentoo developers working
on Ruby, and they are probably keeping busy tracking Rails and most of
the standard 1.8.6 stuff. I run a ~amd64 system and that sort of thing
generally shows up within a day or two after it gets released to
“ruby-talk”.

Both 1.8.7 and 1.9 build just fine on my Gentoo system, so I doubt if
it’s all that difficult to create ebuilds for them. The trick is getting
them tested.

I just filed a bug to get 1.8.7 going. The bug number is 224439; if
anyone wants to “me too”, it’s

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224439

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For reference:

Bugtracker:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/203706

Forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644363-highlight-ruby.html

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Aren’t the gentoo guys people that use the source quickly? :wink:

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Marc H. wrote:

Aren’t the gentoo guys people that use the source quickly? :wink:

Sure so, but it takes maintainers with spare time to get the job done.
Sometimes, such projects run dry more or less silently. Others can pick
up the ball - I’d certainly do my fair share of work as far as my
knowledge allows.

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On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Sven S. [email protected] wrote:

Just a quick question whether someone knows whether someone is working
on bringing Ruby 1.9 to my beloved Gentoo as an ebuild? The repos have
vanished and both forum and bugtracker over at Gentoo are silent as a
grave.

It’s becoming harder and harder to find new projects in gentoo any
more :frowning: Even after I jumped ship to Sabayon and added a few overlays.

martin

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It’s becoming harder and harder to find new projects in gentoo any
more :frowning: Even after I jumped ship to Sabayon and added a few overlays.

martin

It’s harder to find new projects in other distros too. By comparing with
them, Gentoo is better.

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Song Ma wrote:

It’s becoming harder and harder to find new projects in gentoo any
more :frowning: Even after I jumped ship to Sabayon and added a few overlays.

martin

It’s harder to find new projects in other distros too. By comparing with
them, Gentoo is better.

Debian is (I think) still the largest package repository all in one
place. But Gentoo is probably number two. I’m not sure about RPM-based
distros – those are scattered all over and I’m not sure which
repositories are compatible with which distros.