From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-10-15T12:07:42+09:00
Subject: Re: To all people writing BBS on Rails: let's join forces

My words this morning were short and rash. They were not to be 
interpreted in a offending position. I want rails to be a RPA package. I 
have spent much time trying to get it to work with RPA. I failed to do 
so, it just upsets me how much time I was trying and actually messed it 
up further. I've nothing against the developer DHH. He did answer a few 
of my questions, but it would have been helpful for him to tag with 
comments where complicatoins would occur if anyone would wish to change 
file locations.

--Dross

Aredridel wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:20:02 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson
><david@loudthinking.com> wrote:
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>>>No thanks, I'm writing one in a framework without rails. The main
>>>developer is reluctant to help package it for RPA.
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>>This is completely false. I've instructed Mauricio on how I've done the
>>packaging for GEMs, clarified the division between library and stubs,
>>AND welcomed any patches to Rails that would make it easier to package
>>for RPA (under the condition that it didn't disrupt the two other
>>packages I'm maintaining for it myself).
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>It's on our todo lists -- It's just a particularly hard thing to
>package "the right way" (complying with various distribution policies,
>as well as RPA's policies)
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>Rails isn't exactly a library is part of the problem, and there's some
>dependency on Gems even in the tarball version in the last release I
>looked at. It's not that David (Addressing in the third person here,
>pardon) is unwilling to make Rails packageable, it's that it's
>somewhat unique in that it's neither app nor library per se. It's a
>process, and at the moment, David's busy pushing for 1.0.
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>Mauricio keeps poking at Rails on occasion, but it's a moving target
>because of the rapid development, and there's a lot on everyone's
>plate. RPAs will come, but only when they're sure to work right out of
>the package and work forever once installed.
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>It's not easy, but there's really no ill will here: just differing
>opinions on what's most important, and what order things have to be
>done in.
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>G'day, all.
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>Aredridel
>PLD RPM Packager
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