David Vallner
8/25/2006 8:25:00 PM
Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote:
> Maybe that has been asked already, but is it possible to rebuild Ruby
> without sweeping all of the installed gems?
> I have mine in /usr/local so it's isolated from the old one.
>
> Is that even feasible to try? Or the gems/libs will only link to the
> interperter they have been built against?
> --Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
> please send all personal mail to
> me at julik.nl
>
Gems should be very much exempt from any other package management. Gems
without native libraries shouldn't need reinstallation, and probably
neither the ones with native libraries - I don't think you're rebuilding
the interpreter with severe API changes.
David Vallner