Debian or Ubuntu pplz: What would it take to get Ruby as a scripting language shipped by default?
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ah, you want it already installed when someone install the distro? Because Ruby already is stable: https://packages.debian.org/stable/ (cont)
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but if you want it to come right after installing linux, we are talking about Debian Policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s3.7 … (cont.)
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in theory only "important" and "needed" pkgs should be added, but it's not. Because there are tasks: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Tasks … 3/
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But it's already shipped. Jessie comes with Ruby: https://wiki.debian.org/Ruby / https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby - so what's your question?
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Why not ubuntu?
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Ubuntu is Debian based... And Ubuntu does have Ruby by default. I said it in the other tweet.
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since which version?
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not sure. But Ubuntu 10.4 (circa 2010) included both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 in the package system.
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