Why do we not have binary builds of ruby available for common *nix/mac architectures? I've read thru https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/issues/42, and best I can tell seems like a lack of eng + $$$ for the build side.

Its a hard problem I know, I know. But hell, rvm used to do it, somehow, and I think it worked somehow via 2k+ lines of bash and their own builds.

It would make a _lot_ of things easier and faster across build pipelines, deployment, simple CLIs, and dev bootstrap if it was a real thing.

Binary packages · Issue #42 · rbenv/ruby-build

I'd like to add binary package support to ruby-build. I'd guess that most ruby-build installations are on one of two platforms—Mac OS X x86_64 or Linux x86_64—and most people really don't need to c...

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