I agree. This would be far more awesome if you could install it with a fucking shell script. It is called fucking shell scripts. Not fucking ruby scripts.
If somebody created a list of requirements for the perfect language for doing CM it would probably be similar to:
- Always available on every machine
- Proven reliable and stable
- Built to interface with the OS and other utilities
Hmm, that sounds a lot like the shell. If your application doesn't already depend on Ruby, bringing Ruby in as a dependency, is a lot of extra overhead. There is something to be said about this concept, but it should be shell all the way down.