From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-05-08T23:54:55+09:00
Subject: Re: adwords4: access the Google Adwords API in ruby

On 5/8/06, Jason Clinton <me@jasonclinton.com> wrote:
>
>  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.

Please do not try to speak for the entire Ruby community with a
statement like the above, which most here would agree is wrong.
RubyGems are not just for Windows, but for all supported Ruby
platforms.

> 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

From what I've seen only the Debian people make a big stink over
RubyGems, as shown above.

Ryan