From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T18:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: rake 0.6 - thank you

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Jim Weirich wrote:

>
> Hugh Sasse said:
         [...]
>> So I have sun's ssl, but this won't work.
>
> Hi Hugh.  There are several factors interacting here.
>
> (1) First, you probably don't have the Ruby ssl libraries installed.
> Perhaps Ruby did not detect the libraries when you installed.

OK...  I'll see if I can get them to build with Sun's ssl in any
case. Probably worth knowing...
>
> (2) Rake 0.6.0 is a signed gem.  The current version of RubyGems requires
> SSL when installing signed gems, even when it is not checking the
> signatures.  This is obviously wrong.  The CVS RubyGems only requires SSL

If only because we want people to be able to use ruby in countries
with tight cryptography legislation :-)

> when doing the actual check.
>
> I have a unsigned version of Rake available on my betagems site that will
> install with the current rubygems.  Use the following command:
>
>   gem install rake --source http://onstepback.org/betagems
>
> I hope this helps.

Thank you, I'd forgotten about that...
>
> --
         Hugh