Comment 13 for bug 228345

2008/5/28 Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>:
> But there's some real data: popcon. 264545 Ubuntu users have libruby1.8
> installed (ie about >50% of all ubuntu users, since the most installed
> packages have 574294). And 9007 users (1.5% of all Ubuntu users, 3.4% of
> users having libruby1.8 installed) have libgems-ruby1.8 installed.

Not very sound statistics. That's just package installs, and no
differentiation between automatic and manual. Ubuntu main contains the
ruby-core libraries and installs them by default now. So it hardly
surprising to see the core installed by the packaging system to run
the ruby scripts contained therein. That is what it is supposed to do.
It could be called anything and it wouldn't affect those numbers one
little bit.

Look at the Rails package. Less than 500 people use Rails according to
those statistics. Hardly realistic is it given that the Ruby market is
dominated by Rails.

There is a reason that gems is in Ruby for 1.9. There is a reason
there are 3000 gems in the database and growing. I'm pretty sure it
isn't just to spite the Debian Ruby group.

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Neil Wilson