From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-06-05T21:49:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem resolved back - was RE: Gem 0.4 segfaults on winxp upon i nsta ll)

On Saturday, June 5, 2004, 12:37:22 PM, Botp wrote:

> Chad Fowler [mailto:chad@chadfowler.com] wrote:
>> 
>> # Btw, are all rubyforge projects have corr gem format now?
>> 
>> I'm not sure I understand the question.  Could you explain?

> I'm sorry. I misunderstood your recent announcement regarding the
> rubyforge+gem integration. I see now that one has to create his own gem and
> post it on rubyforge.

> I was thinking along the line of posting ones project on rubyforge AND
> rubyforge will do the gem generation for it. Is that possible? (isn't the
> gemspec actually a ruby program? -sorry for stupid question, this is just my
> first dive into gem).

The gemspec _is_ a Ruby program, but it's more like data than a
program.  Thankfully in Ruby, data is usually best expressed as a
program, availing you of all its sweet goodness.  But I digress...

Gemspecs need to be written by a person. [1]  End of story.

Cheers,
Gavin

[1] In fact, they can easily be written by Rake, but a person needs to
write the Rakefile.