Solaris Support

This is nothing -> I <- want but want to bring the message into loom.io.

Glenn D. Roberson wrote:
“A friend of mine has expressed interest in running a Diaspora hub. Is there a way to run a hub on #Solaris? He has 3 #Solaris servers that he could load balance across, but there doesn’t seem to be anything that will run on it.”

https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/38926d16c3e2b966
(Global ID at the end of the link, so you can answer it directly at your pod)


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I don’t see why not. Solaris is much like any other flavor of UNIX. Just compile & build Ruby from source and then run the Rails app. And after he gets it all up and running, a quick guide of maybe some platform-specific caveats would be helpful on the Wiki!

This guy came on IRC but I believe the answer was “install Linux” :stuck_out_tongue:

“Install Linux” is not a good answer for Unix users, and they usually don’t like it if they came asking for support on their platforms :wink:

Solaris users can probably create packages from http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ instead of building them manually.

See https://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/SFEruby-18.spec

Except that we require 1.9.2 or later, so that 1.8.7 one there won’t work :wink: