On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 23:17 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> >http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/08/2321254
>
> I found that also very strange:
>
> > Other new software available in FC5 includes (...) Ruby, the popular
> > programming language, which replaces FC5's GCC-based Java applications
> > if installed.
>
> How come can Ruby replace GCC-Based Java applications? I hever heard of
> Ruby being able to run bytecodes. ;-)
Someone is confused.
I asked. And this was his response:
The point seems to have been lost in the editing.
What I originally wrote was "which for some reason replaces FC5's
GCC-based Java applications." In other words, I was pointing out that,
if you install Ruby on FC5, yum removed the GCC stuff as if there was
a conflict, which seemed more than a little strange to me.
So it was actually a bug report disguised as a news article. But he
hadn't counted on his editor making it even more obscure :)
Cheers,
Mark