From: Abraham Vionas <abe_ml@...>
Date: 2004-11-22T14:35:35+09:00
Subject: Re: RPA vs rubygems (Re: [ANN] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL))

OH NO, you realize you're opening the proverbial can of worms, right? Last
time (if I recall correctly) things ended up with Gems vs. RPA'ers and at
each others throats. 

Personally, I believe some of my recent difficulties getting a Rails
tutorial to work may be because I installed both RPA and Gems and then
allowed RPA to take ownership of Rails... I've also noticed that RPA will
redownload and install any dependencies for it's packages even if they
already exist on the users machine. 

Regards, Abe

P.s. I like both methods. One thing that RPA has that Gems doesn't is the
ability to list (with a single line summary) all of the packages available
for download and install through RPA. While I understand that there's a lot
of methology differences between the two camps, from a user perspective both
seem to accomplish the same thing and do so very well. 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Garamond [mailto:lists@zara.6.isreserved.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:55 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: RPA vs rubygems (Re: [ANN] postgres-pr (pure Ruby PostgreSQL))

Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
>>i thought the purpose of RPA is as a collection of _production_-level 
>>(mostly mature, stable, well tested) libraries?
> 
> That is the primary goal of RPA, but it doesn't exclude packaging more 
> libraries; in fact, some 150 libraries/applications have been packaged 
> so far, and many are not "production-level".
> Quoting from http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?Rpa_FAQ :

I see. Thanks for the clear-up. Haven't had a chance to play with RPA.

So which between rubygems and RPA is more popular? Is there any indication
of  which one will be the "official" or "preferred" packaging system for
Ruby in the future? Which one will become (or will be the closest to) the
Ruby equivalent of CPAN? By that I mean I can find and install most Ruby
libraries with it.

Ruby library writers, which one do you prefer or do you find easier to
package your software with?

Regards,
dave