From: Chad Fowler Date: 2004-10-28T11:03:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Gems as key? Re: The real Ruby vs. Python. On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:09:05 +0900, 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 > This is the vision. Above all, "really freaking easy". That's our focus. > > 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? Great ideas. The binary/library dependency thing will require a lot of thought, but it will definitely come up in the future. We have limited support for binaries now, but it needs a lot of filling out. We're building a site for RubyGems (hopefully to be released within the next few weeks) which I think will excite you. More details to come.... Thanks for the great ideas and enthusiasm. -- Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com http://rubycentral.org http://rubygarden.org http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over 20,000 gems served!)