[Bug 470696] Review Request: rubygem-passenger - Passenger Ruby on Rails deployment system

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470696

--- Comment #61 from Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> 2010-08-25 10:33:41 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #60)
> (In reply to comment #59)
> > You can only be as disappointed as much as you're willing to sink your teeth
> > into solving the actual problems stated above.
> 
> That would be very difficult since I know absolutely nothing about ruby.  My
> only interest is in setting up a scalable puppet system and as a sysadmin, for
> obvious reasons, I would prefer to use the native OS package manager, rather
> than a package management system built-in to and only useful for one specific
> software tool.
> 

Then maybe reconsider declaring yourself disappointed -others do in fact
(attempt to) sink their teeth into solving the actual problem, so that you can
sleep at night without having to worry whether there is a new problem on the
horizon.

> > That said, before such aforementioned work is actually done, chances are this
> > package will not be included in the regular Fedora distribution or EPEL add-on
> > repository.
> 
> Why does this have no chance of being included in a RedHat distribution?  Is it
> a licensing issue or something else?
> 

I said Fedora distribution and EPEL add-on repository, and I did not say Red
Hat distribution. These are completely different. The Fedora Project will not
accept it as part of it's Fedora distribution or EPEL add-on repository, and
Red Hat can do as it wishes -however it is still very much unlikely they'll
ship it as it is.

As to the reason this package is not / can not / will not be included; Please
read the comments in this bug/review request. Long story short, Passenger ships
a forked version of the C++ Boost libraries -and lags behind a dozen versions
or so.

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