Ruby 1.8.0 .pkg/installer for OS X?

ruby-talk
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Can someone tell me if there’s a package for Ruby 1.8.0 installer for
Mac OS X?

Does anyone know if Apple is planning on shipping Panther with Ruby
1.8.0?

I know the last question is a long shot but if someone knows of a hint
I would appreciate it.

ーテレル イラン

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Panther will ship with Ruby 1.8.

See

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/77496

Regards,

Mark

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On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 11:19 PM, Ilán Terrell wrote:

Can someone tell me if there’s a package for Ruby 1.8.0 installer for
Mac OS X?

Does anyone know if Apple is planning on shipping Panther with Ruby
1.8.0?

I know the last question is a long shot but if someone knows of a hint
I would appreciate it.

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Il?n Terrell ilant@mac.com wrote in message news:53DD6088-1E1B-11B2-810F-000393B6182C@mac.com…

Can someone tell me if there’s a package for Ruby 1.8.0 installer for
Mac OS X?

I made a Mac OS X/Darwin package for Ruby 1.8 this weekend. It’s
available as a .pkg inside a 5.9 MB disk image at:

http://homepage.mac.com/digibren/FileSharing1.html

It installs to /supp and includes readline, gdbm, iconv, gettext and
dl modules. It doesn’t include support for tcl/tk but I’m planning to
make a new package soon because there’s a patch at rubygarden to make
ruby compile with aqua tcl/tk.

Please let me know if there is something wrong with the package
installation as I haven’t been able to test it outside of the machine
I built it on. It was built with the Decemember Developer Tools on OS
X 10.2 so it will only work for 10.2 or later.

digibren

4

Actually…I tried (as did Matz delivery-date wise) to get 1.8 into
Panther. I don’t think it made it. I am going to download the latest
drop from the Apple developer’s site today and let you know whether by
some miracle its there…but I would not count on it :frowning:

As for a .pkg…there is a RubyForge project to build an installer for
OS X ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/osx-dist/ ). The project
maintainer has not released a .pkg file yet…I will contact him and
ask status.

-rich

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On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 03:21 AM, Mark Wilson wrote:

On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 11:19 PM, Ilán Terrell wrote:

Can someone tell me if there’s a package for Ruby 1.8.0 installer for
Mac OS X?

Does anyone know if Apple is planning on shipping Panther with Ruby
1.8.0?

I know the last question is a long shot but if someone knows of a
hint I would appreciate it.

Panther will ship with Ruby 1.8.

See

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/77496

Regards,

Mark

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As for a .pkg…there is a RubyForge project to build an installer for
OS X ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/osx-dist/ ). The project
maintainer has not released a .pkg file yet…I will contact him and
ask status.

I am that maintainer. The status is that I wanted to release a version,
which would properly install the readlines module as well. That turned
out to be slightly more complicated than I envisioned, though. So it
didn’t move much further than that.

I quick probably do a quick release of “just” a compiled Ruby 1.8.0.
That’s better than nothing at all ;).

On a longer term, the idea was to put together a series of pre-compiled
packages. Like one for web-development that would install and setup
mod_ruby with Apache, include the MySQL extension, and more.

I’m all ears for additional ideas.

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–
David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.loudthinking.com/ – Thoughts for free
http://www.nextangle.com/ – Thoughts for hire

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Is there a reason you don’t want to use fink or darwin-ports? Both of
these provide dependency resolution (ie, readline library).

I am pretty sure ruby 1.8 is in the unstable branch for fink at the
moment.

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On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 10:21 AM, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

As for a .pkg…there is a RubyForge project to build an installer
for OS X ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/osx-dist/ ). The project
maintainer has not released a .pkg file yet…I will contact him and
ask status.

I am that maintainer. The status is that I wanted to release a
version, which would properly install the readlines module as well.
That turned out to be slightly more complicated than I envisioned,
though. So it didn’t move much further than that.

I quick probably do a quick release of “just” a compiled Ruby 1.8.0.
That’s better than nothing at all ;).

On a longer term, the idea was to put together a series of
pre-compiled packages. Like one for web-development that would install
and setup mod_ruby with Apache, include the MySQL extension, and more.

I’m all ears for additional ideas.

David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.loudthinking.com/ – Thoughts for free
http://www.nextangle.com/ – Thoughts for hire

7

Fink is righteous, and far be it from me to discourage its use under any
circumstances.

FWIW, however, I found ruby 1.8 to be one of the most straightforward
builds from source I’ve come across under OS X, just riding bareback on
gcc. I don’t recall having to do any special config line mojo at all.
configure;make;sudo make install and I was set. (Of course, I had
readline &c built already. YMMV.)

Cheers,
Thomas

In article A13805C8-E20C-11D7-A866-000A95782782@forthillcompany.com,

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Brian McCallister mccallister@forthillcompany.com wrote:

Is there a reason you don’t want to use fink or darwin-ports? Both of
these provide dependency resolution (ie, readline library).

I am pretty sure ruby 1.8 is in the unstable branch for fink at the
moment.

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 10:21 AM, David Heinemeier Hansson > wrote:

As for a .pkg…there is a RubyForge project to build an installer
for OS X ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/osx-dist/ ). The project
maintainer has not released a .pkg file yet…I will contact him and
ask status.