From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T03:06:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems as key? Re: The real Ruby vs. Python.

Curt Hibbs wrote:
>
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
> >
> > Dare I say it, but cloning CPAN near-exactly wouldn't be a bad
> way to go.
> >
> > And that means putting RPAN (or whatever) as part of the Ruby standard
> > library, having college mirrors, doing dependancy checking, and so
> > forth.
>
> This is not quite the same thing, but...
>
> The One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows is going to include
> RubyGems and a
> GUI interface to RubyGems. RubyGems will be in the final 1.8.2 release of
> the installer (hopefully the GUI interface will be ready in time to be
> included as well). It is also possible that a follow-on release would
> contain RPA (and a corresponding GUI interface).

Oh yeah, and we also working on an installer for OS X that will contain the
same thing. (We still need to find someone to do an installer for KDE and
Gnome).

Curt