From: Randy Lawrence <jm@...>
Date: 2004-07-14T10:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 0.7.0 - still 'Alpha' status?

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Randy Lawrence wrote:
> 
> 
>>RubyGems looks very interesting...  Especially for those of us that miss
>> perl's CPAN.
>>
>>When is RubyGems "development status" expected to get a bump up from the
>> "3 - Alpha" status currently noted here?
>>
>>	http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/
> 
> 
> Good question.  While RubyGems has come a long way, it's still on the
> growth curve.  There'll be a 1.0 sometime this year, I predict, but
> fundamental things could still change before then, so it's hard to
> consider it anything other than alpha.
> 
> Naturally, there'll be a beta period when things have stabilised and a 1.0
> is imminent.
> 
> Mind you, it's a very usable alpha :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Gavin
> 
> 
> 
> 

I just used RubyGems for the first time and love it!  It just doesn't 
get easier than this from the command line.

Here's the output for those that haven't used RubyGems:

x:\> gem install net-ssh
Attempting local installation of 'net-ssh'
Local gem file not found: net-ssh.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'net-ssh'
Successfully installed net-ssh, version 0.0.3

x:\>