From: Stefano Taschini <taschini.mlist@...>
Date: 2006-05-09T02:31:37+09:00
Subject: Re: adwords4: access the Google Adwords API in ruby

On 08/05/06, 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. 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

Actually, RubyGems is a solution that is independent of the underlying
OS. This means that I do not have to make a deb, an rpm, a darwin
port, a pkg, an exe installer:
a gem will install on all linux distributions, mac os x, solaris, and
ms windows.

Sure, it is not perfect, but is portable.

The webpage that you linked only seems to complain that it is more
difficult for the debian packagers to redistribute ruby packages as
debs, which does not exactly mean that "Using gems on Linux is
considered an evil."

Ciao
Stefano