From: Jason Clinton Date: 2006-05-08T23:32:43+09:00 Subject: Re: adwords4: access the Google Adwords API in ruby --=-5CoLHhwUolcrZKCH+ehC Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-Cut+FnnBnyEhpBP3RB9o" --=-Cut+FnnBnyEhpBP3RB9o Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 04:49 +0900, Patrick Chanezon wrote: > It's a gem but I also provide an installer if you don't want to use ruby > gems (why wouldn't you;-) Because RubyGems is a solution to a problem that you only have when you don't have a package manager. (Read: Windows). Using gems on Linux is considered an evil. And the more that authors push out packages with /only/ Gems support, the worse the situation gets. See here: http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html --=-Cut+FnnBnyEhpBP3RB9o Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 04:49 +0900, Patrick Chanezon wrote:

It's a gem but I also provide an installer if you d=
on't want to use ruby
gems (why wouldn't you;-)

Because RubyGems is a solution to a problem that you only have when you don= 't have a package manager. (Read: Windows). Using gems on Linux is consider= ed an evil. And the more that authors push out packages with /only/ Gems su= pport, the worse the situation gets. See here:

http://p= kg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html

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