Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by comice » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 10:41 AM UTC

Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu
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Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by perlpimp » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 10:59 AM UTC

Thought 1.9.3 is not very favorable for Rails deployment or am I wrong?

Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by fingerprinter » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 11:03 AM UTC

Color me intrigued. Would love to see someone step up and maintain Ruby again. RVM is great, but a native package is always preferable.

Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by judofyr » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 11:03 AM UTC

perlpimp wrote: post #2

Thought 1.9.3 is not very favorable for Rails deployment or am I wrong?

1.9.3 is stable and fine for deployment.

Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by omarqureshi » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 11:11 AM UTC

This looks pretty good - it's always painful installing packages from source (RVM included in that) mainly as a time + another thing I have to maintain thing.

I'm not that familiar with Debian package management but would it be much work to also have these packages working on squeeze too? In which case I would most likely start using Debian a lot more.

Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by comice » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 11:23 AM UTC

omarqureshi wrote: post #5

This looks pretty good - it's always painful installing packages from source (RVM included in that) mainly as a time + another thing I have to maintain thing. I'm not that familiar with Debian package management but would it be much work to also have these packages working on squeeze too? In which case I would most likely start using Debian a lot more.

They should build without much modification - it just needs a bit of effort to setup a repository and do the builds. If there is demand for it, we could look at doing it.

Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by KTamas » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 12:17 PM UTC

I'd love to see RVM/rbenv support a version of 1.9.3 with the mentioned patches.

Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by InfernalH » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 12:41 PM UTC

perlpimp wrote: post #2

Thought 1.9.3 is not very favorable for Rails deployment or am I wrong?

Already in production for months, no particular problems

Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by sciurus » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 1:05 PM UTC

  Added Sokolov Yura‘s performance patches for 1.9.3
  Added Narihiro Nakamura’s Lazy Sweep garbage collector (backported by Sakolov Yura)

Why isn't this work a part of an official ruby release?

  Patched Ruby 1.9.3 to export the right symbols to work with ruby-debug
  Built Ruby 1.9.3 with Google’s high performance memory alloactor, tcmalloc

Why aren't Debian and Ubuntu doing this already?

Re: Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

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Post by comice » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 1:49 PM UTC

sciurus wrote: post #9

Added Sokolov Yura‘s performance patches for 1.9.3 Added Narihiro Nakamura’s Lazy Sweep garbage collector (backported by Sakolov Yura) Why isn't this work a part of an official ruby release? Patched Ruby 1.9.3 to export the right symbols to work with ruby-debug Built Ruby 1.9.3 with Google’s high performance memory alloactor, tcmalloc Why aren't Debian and Ubuntu doing this already?

imo, I don't think Debian and Ubuntu should do this - it's not really their job. Distros should, for the most part, just be packaging upstream code and not maintaining an unofficial fork.

Though counter to this, RedHat basically maintain their own fork of the Linux kernel but it's a bit of a special case, and they do employ full time kernel developers to do it!