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Yup it's a shame an operating system released as early as this year (mountain lion) came with 1.8.7 because it will be around for quite a while. We recently had

by tbrock 13y ago

Yup it's a shame an operating system released as early as this year (mountain lion) came with 1.8.7 because it will be around for quite a while. We recently had to make the difficult decision to continue support of it in a new release because of CentOS, Mountain Lion etc... At least 2.0.0p195 is indeed in Mavericks.

ihuman 13y ago
Are there people that do programming on macs not use tools like macports or homebrew?
- tbrock 13y ago
  You are right, I'm pretty sure everyone who is a professional programmer uses homebrew, it's amazing. However, coding to 1.8.7 lets those who aren't hardcore rubyists currently enjoy a gem they may otherwise not be able to without having to deal with or even know about rvm or rbenv.
- UNIXgod 13y ago
  There's gentoo/alt and fink which predates DarwinPorts. I'm sure there is even a pkgsrc user out there. I've occasionally used this one called make. It's sort of a meta language to homebeer. In fact it comes in two flavors pmake and gmake. =P
  - X-Istence 13y ago
    You forgot bsdmake ... which up until OS X ML was still available on OS X.
    - UNIXgod 13y ago
      I didn't forget it. That is pmake my friend =)