Re: Macs & gcc

["K. gnarup" <http://www.gmail.com/~kgnarup>]

> > I've been trying to install ruby+rails since this morning, still not
> > done.
> > This is ridiculous.
>
> ...especially on Mac!  It was almost made for Mac!
>
> This is the real problem with OSX 10.4 -- there is no good package system.
> The DMGs are nice, but there doesn't seem to be a dependency system.  fink
> is really great, but it works outside the main OSX framework so its
> applications are a bit cumbersome to use.  There's probably a pkgsrc
> package for MacOS.  That would be a sufficient compromise.

For the dmg thing to work, someone would have to stick all the bits together
and package it.  It should have ruby, gem, fastcgi, light httpd or whatever.

Alternatively, these should be added to the framework.  Apache is in the
framework I think, so it can be reliably used.

But gcc4.0 not even compiling hello.c is unbelievable.  Maybe something went
wrong in my installation,

Anyhow, I just got ruby 1.8.4 and gem.  And it is using webrick.  The RoR
thing is very strange.

> Ya know, maybe while I was talking with the ex-director of OSX
> development, I should have brought
> this up.  After all, I obviously had nothing to lose :-).

He might have liked it!