From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-07-12T03:25:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Developmetn Releases on Rubyforge


Berger, Daniel wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: transfire@gmail.com [mailto:transfire@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:57 AM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: Developmetn Releases on Rubyforge
> >
> >
> > Wish there a way to mark a Rubyforge release as "official" so
> > that a later development releases wouldn't become the default
> > package/gem.
> >
> > What solutions to this do others use?
> > T.
>
> Simple - I don't put out a gems for development releases.  You want it?
> You gotta grab it yourself. :)

Doh! Yea well that's a good idea. I'll do that, Thanks Daniel. BTW I
added you #to_struct method to Facets yesterday. Thanks!

> Does rubygems support a "status" option, i.e. "stable", "alpha",
> "development", etc?  Then set the default to only install "stable" gems,
> with an option to install the specified status level, e.g. gem install
> foo --status=any would grab the latest and greatest, regardless of dev
> status.

Yea. Something like that seems like a good idea.

Thanks,
T.