From: dross@... Date: 2004-10-28T03:32:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Gems as key? Re: The real Ruby vs. Python. *shrug* RPA isn't trying to mock CPAN exactly. We are trying to implement a large repository like CPAN, but make te system have nice features, maybe a -testing repository, etc. A big maybe is a -testing where users do upload thier own .rps files, but give no promise on the system. Just some ideas that cooked up from batsman and others in #rpa on freenode networks. David Ross -- Hazzle free packages for Ruby? RPA is available from http://www.rubyarchive.org/ > 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. > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:12:24 +0900, David Ross > wrote: >> Its Me wrote: >> >> >> >> >"Abe Vionas_MailingList" wrote >> > >> > >> > >> >>What it comes down to is what it's coming down to for >> >>me... platform maturity. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >This bites me quite often as well, though I have not given up. There >> are >> >likely hordes of unwashed masses like me, not entirely adept at >> >source-patch-recompile-rebuild, who never even get started with Ruby >> because >> >of the kinds of issues Abe describes. >> > >> >Their loss or Ruby's? Unfortunately, probably both. >> > >> >I feel gems is one of the keys to getting past this. Gems can make my >> local >> >(Windows) Ruby install feel like >> > - a single plug-in system >> > - pulling together 'requires' >> > - incorporating documentation from a single starting point >> > - including compatible versions and dependencies >> > >> >It would be great if gems was part of the standard Ruby distribution, >> if RPA >> >could use gems as its underlying package manager (reducing confusion >> for >> >newBs), and if RPA could then also take on the role of Release Manager >> for >> >Ruby itself. >> > >> >Some misc thoughts: >> > >> >- Could gems ALSO cover binaries AND binary/library dependencies? >> > >> >- Could the gems RDOCs have links to some gems-aligned community >> >documentation site, as someone else proposed here recently? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> RPA and RubyGems have different aspects in implementation, so it would >> not be compatible/easy. Now that I have a RPA QA team for windows, we >> should have binaries put together soon. Good support for software. :) >> >> David Ross >> -- >> Hazzle free packages for Ruby? >> RPA is available from http://www.rubyarchive.org/ >> >> > >