D. Krmpotic wrote:
Yeah, it's bug #123315 on launchpad.net. I hope you don't mind but I
used your statement there without explicit attribution
(
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby1.8/+bug/123315). It
will probably get affirmed as a wishlist item. The problem is I think
partly that Ubuntu focuses on the basic and entry level user as a higher
priority, and though programmers are certainly recognized as important
part of their user community, on things like this I think they may let
their inheritence of Debian packages dictate more what happens. That is
a guess. I've looked at a diagram of their (Our, since I'm actively
doing volunteer work for them) release process and it involves
inheriting slices of the latest Debian stuff, upgrading with changes
they've been able to actively make, then keeping those deltas so that
ever six months the next Debian slice may be re-inherited with the
latest "net" deltas. Meanwhile their launchpad mechanism tries to
republish all work back to upstream sources like Debian and GNOME and
Firefox so that any fixes they find at Ubuntu can be reused by upstream
activities with minimal duplication. It's a cool process I think, but
it tries to isolate Ubuntu resources to focus on making everyman's
workstation work well while letting and others do their work in
complement. Perhaps one way to establish Ruby as a good thing to keep
updated will be to show that as well as being a well designed and
powerful language, it is also perhaps the best entry level language for
programmers right now.
that i compile ruby from source always, it is one