From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T08:01:14+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA Status & The Problem with Ruby

Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:21:03 +0900, Alexander Kellett
>
> A related problem, which I think had a lot to do with that person, was
> that there was this "rivalry" of sorts set up between the RubyGems
> packaging system and RPA, and although I never saw them as competing
> efforts, it seemed to be the case that one of them had to "win". My
> understanding of the RPA effort was that it had a lot to do with
> quality control issues and was not quite so hung up on the packaging
> approach (as long as the packaging approach was consistent).

There was never any rivalry between the RPA and RubyGems teams (perhaps this
person created the appearance of one). In fact the truth was quite the
opposite -- the developers on both teams cooperated and even shared code.

Curt