[SVN] Re: Changes for Ruby 1.9

[James Gray]

On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Charles Turner wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:11:47 -0500, James Gray wrote:
>>> On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
>>> I'd really just like to concentrate on 1.9 and forget about the past
> though...
>
>> Until then, it's still a bit of a moving
>> target unsuited to most production code.
>
> True, but I'm not writing code for production purposes. ;-)
>
>> It's also very trivial to have two installs side by side:
>> $ ruby -v
>> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-darwin9.4.0]
>> $ ruby_dev -v
>> ruby 1.9.0 (2008-03-01 revision 15664) [i686-darwin9.2.0]
>
> Yes, it did occur to me that a shell script would be a simple  
> solution,
> but I haven't had time to get it setup. Thanks for the reminder!

There's no reason to use a shell script.  Ruby supports this directly:

   ./configure … --program-suffix=18

That would add a 18 suffix to all programs built:  ruby18, irb18, etc.

James Edward Gray II