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		nailer on July 1, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why Python over Ruby? Can you explain more? Is there better native packaging (deb/rpm) etc support?

sho on July 1, 2009 [–]

Rubygems is a separate system from deb/rpm, but works roughly the same way. Typically it doesn't do binary packaging the way they do it, though, and if native (non-ruby) code is required it is compiled during the install.

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