[ale] OT: ruby/redmine/apache

[Leam Hall]

On 05/08/2012 08:48 PM, JD wrote:

> BTW, using RVM is a great idea. NEVER use the OS perl, python, php or ruby
> installs for non-OS purposes. That just beings dependency problems at every
> upgrade, unless you can use the package system for the apps (redmine) too.

I will disagree with this from an enterprise perspective. If you use the 
OS version then you are letting the OS team maintain security 
vulnerability remediations. If your application can't handle an upgrade 
you probably need to find a better application.

The other side of that is if you are happy to spend your time 
recompiling and distributing your application every time software you 
depend on comes out. For Java that would be about 4-6 times a year. Not 
as often for the others.

It really depends on where you want to spend your time.

Leam