From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2011-11-02T06:31:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40655] Re: Can rubygems save us from "binary-compatibility hell"?

On Nov 1, 2011, at 2:03 PM, V�t Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 1.11.2011 0:05, Eric Hodel napsal(a):
>> On Oct 31, 2011, at 2:41 PM, V�t Ondruch wrote:
>>> Actually you have missed that there are Linux distros, which are repackaging the gems. I am speaking of Fedora and RHEL. It would cause a lot of troubles.
>> What troubles?
> 
> Because you had to rebuild packaged gems after even the tiniest update of Ruby.

I do not recall rebuilding my gems after updating between Ruby patch levels or even between versions in the 1.9 series, that is why the library version is 1.9.1.

Have I forgotten needing to rebuild?  Can you show me a ticket where API broke?

> There is currently more then 200 gems in Fedora, so that is a lot of work to rebuild them. Even the smallest Rails stack counts almost 50 gems.

This process should be automateable by Fedora and other Linux distributions.

I don't think Ruby should restrict itself because repackagers have a manual process.

If there is something Ruby can do to help Fedora, etc. automate packaging I think Ruby should do it.