From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T23:49:18+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyForge project and gem distriubtion

David Ross wrote:
> > 
> > I think you missed the point about the orimary
> > functionality of rpa being
> > orthogonal to RubyGems. Just as Rails built itself
> > on top of webrick, rpa
> > could have built itself on top of rubygems.
> > 
> 
> I have to disagree. Batsman has plans for rpa-base and
> how they are packaged. RubyGems would not even follow
> the way batsman is going. Also, I suppose rpa-base
> could temporarily use rubygems packages, but again,
> batsman has a bigger, better vision. He has studied
> package managers for the past 6 months. He studied the
> mistakes they make, how they could be better, and how
> they work. Also to bring to attention. Batsman
> generously gave RubyGems part of the package scheme
> code. Wasn't that nice of him? :)

I stand corrected! 

Curt