From: Jim Weirich Date: 2004-06-25T02:48:59+09:00 Subject: Re: rubygems thoughts Jim Weirich said: I hate it when I hit send by accident! > Sean O'Dell said: >> I didn't realize this either. Someone ought to write a definitive >> tutorial on Gems and maintain it with each release. The examples >> I found left a lot of things unexplained and it was a painful >> session of trial-and-error to get my gems working properly, and >> even then, I didn't know there was a way to bypass the "require_gem" >> statement. >> >> If any more work is done on Gems, I strongly recommend it be on good >> documentation, and then maintain those docs to update it for the changes >> made in the future. We are currently reworking the command structure of the gem command. It grew to be a confusing hodge-podge of options and suboptions. The new gem command will follow the cvs model (e.g. gem install ...) and the options will be clearly identified for each gem command. The internals will be much cleaner as well. At that time we will revisit the documentation and make sure it gets updated. Documentation is high on our priority list. Thanks for the feedback. -- -- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)