From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2005-03-15T08:23:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Codefest Grant - RubyGems cleanup and enhancement

> Part of this can be resolved by the ability to list different Gem 
> sources.
>  This source (identified by URL) contains stable packages and that 
> source
> (a different URL) containts unstable packages.  Gems can manage 
> different
> sources today, although the interface is primitive.  The gems team is
> thinking about how to make this more flexible (e.g. get gems from this
> source, unless its not available, then get them from that source).

The Rails team already uses this with much success. Beta gems are 
available from http://gems.rubyonrails.com has the edge, the public 
repository has the stable. If you have a site to spare, this is already 
a much easier approach since you can push as many unstable gems, and as 
often as you like, without cluttering a main repository.
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