Ruby on Rails and pkgsrc

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Mon Mar 20 08:27:05 PST 2006


On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> Among other things that gems provides is a way to handle
> multiple versions of the same package installed at the
> same time.  Ruby scripts can specify which versions of
> some package that they will work with, and the same OS
> can easily support different scripts which "must have"
> incompatible versions of a given gem.

Just want to mention that pkgsrc provides a feature like this also also -- 
where multiple versions of same package can be installed at same time. It 
is not well tested (and not all packages have been checked), but I have 
used it some myself.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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