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> Ruby and Python just happened to grow so quickly that their growth didn't immediately trigger the appropriate response from distro maintainers, and very quick
by halostatue 16y ago
> Ruby and Python just happened to grow so quickly that their growth didn't immediately trigger the appropriate response from distro maintainers, and very quickly the community worked around the problem.
This is true, but it's more than that. Ruby and Python are both committed to working on a wide variety of platforms, including platforms that don't have native package management systems (Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, etc.). For Ruby programs and libraries, RubyGems are a more elegant solution than telling people 10 - 20 different ways on how to work with their project, depending on the OS.