Thread: Developing on the N900 itself ?
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fluido is offline fluido
2009-10-21 , 06:13
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#22
Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
Just a fyi, I see ruby 1.8 in extras testing. You may not need to compile it. Enable ET and then do an apt-get ruby1.8 and ruby1.8-dev
I have seen that. But, first of all, ruby 1.9 has a sharp increase in performance w.r.t. 1.8. And then, while I am no Gentoo user, I like to compile by myself all key elements that I use for developing. You learn a lot in the process. On my four-core desktop it takes less than a minute to compile Ruby. Even if I were to wait 5 minutes for compiling it on the maemo device, I believe it is time well spent.