From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-02-01T05:34:04+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available!

On 1/31/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
> ...
> > Ruby extensions if/when they so desire. And second, this release
> > contains two versions of FXRuby, 1.4.4 (the latest release), and 1.2.6
> > (needed by fxri and FreeRIDE).
>
> This is a question more about gems, I think. I noticed that, after
> installing the one-click, and doing a gem cleanup, 1.2.6 was deleted.
> I'm not on windows now, so I can't tell whether this breaks FreeRIDE,
> but it sounds like it would.

Yes, this would break both FreeRIDE and fxri.

> Is there some way to "lock" older gems that are needed by applications?
> Or would FreeRIDE have to be a gem itself and have an explicit dependency?

I'm not a RubyGemes expert, perhaps one of the RubyGems developers is
reading and can answer?

Curt