From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-09T01:51:12+09:00
Subject: Re: adwords4: access the Google Adwords API in ruby


On May 8, 2006, at 11:09 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On May 8, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Jason Clinton wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 23:54 +0900, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I disagree. RubyGems should only be used on Linux when a package  
>> is not available from you distribution. Did you read the linked page?
>
> You are welcome to disagree.  You are not welcome to speak for me.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>
>

I agree with James. Do they have a similar rant about CPAN? I recall  
using CPAN on Debian back when I used Debian, and googling couldn't  
find anything similar to the page on rubygems about CPAN.

OTOH, I do believe that user applications probably should not be  
distributed as gems, or at least not only as gems. But that's another  
topic, with other reasoning.