you should let the RDoc folks know. They probably know where to turn with
such a request
i guess this would have to be taken over by the folks who maintain the
standard library?
2009/7/7 Michael J. I. Jackson <mjijackson@gmail.com>
Fabian,
This is an excellent idea ... one thing that I actually miss about coding
in PHP (probably the only thing I can think of at the moment). The docs are
excellent and they contain information like this.
I know that I can just compile from source, but I'd rather spend
my time writing Ruby instead of managing packages. I've
installed software from source before, and it can be a pain.
Try an approach like GoboLinux. Basically everything goes into one dir -
ruby would reside under /Programs/Ruby/Version i.e.
/Programs/Ruby/1.9.1, Glibc would reside under /Programs/Glibc/2.10.1
and so on and so forth. For an older glibc version it would be i.e.
/Programs/Glibc/2.6 and a symlink would point at which
version is the one which should be used currently.
This model works much better because when you want to switch versions,
you just switch symlinks (if you installed that program already, else
you just download the binary via a script and have it setup to be your
main version)
Also, if you want to get rid of something, you just kill the directory.
With that being said though, GoboLinux is too small so I dont recommend
it.
Big distributions like Ubuntu have one huge advantage - NUMBERS.
Numbers of users, developers and so forth. There is too much
proliferation of distributions without any real gain.
I have run almost all of these operating systems at one point or
another (in college I used to experiment with them), but I'm not
familiar with the latest versions of each
But then you already must invest time. :>
The most obvious solution would be to use the one which gives you the
least amount of problems. Now, I believe the GoboLinux model is better
than the FHS one, but if _I_ have to pick a distribution which I can
recommend to smart people, then I will pick Archlinux.
If you want the numbers, then use Ubuntu.
Dont do it like me though, because else you would end up with a system
that is much closer to Linux from Scratch, with an always-unfinished
package manager in ruby, which lacks features pacman (Archlinux) or
apt-get (Ubuntu) has - stick to a distribution! 
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If you want the numbers, then use Ubuntu.
Hey, Archlinux has a pretty nice userbase as well.
Ubuntu may have a billion users, but I'm guessing most of them don't know
a dime about their system; Archlinux has some thousand users,
most of whom know what's going on
After all, when you've set up an Arch system, you have a pretty good insight
already...