From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-23T11:30:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Would people use a rubyforge apt-get repository?

darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the M. Edward (Ed) Borasky:
> 
>> People who run Debian or derivatives of Debian might. I guess us
>> Gentooists would prefer a utility to automate production of ebuilds from
>> gems, since quite a few gems are already in Portage.
> 
> It would be trivial to do so. Someone took the time to write a gems eclass so 
> a valid ebuild for a package available via remote gems (using my own as 
> example) is:
> 
> ###
> <snip header>
> 
> inherit ruby gems
> 
> DESCRIPTION="A pure Ruby library for reading metadata from Flac files"
> HOMEPAGE="http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/flacinfo/"
> SRC_URI="http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/${P}.gem"
> 
> LICENSE="Ruby"
> SLOT="0"
> KEYWORDS="~x86"
> 
> IUSE=""
> USE_RUBY="ruby18"
> DEPEND="virtual/ruby"
> ###
> 
> You could grab the needed info from the gemspec, and you don't need the 
> USE_RUBY if you are sure the package will run on Ruby 1.6, 1.8 and 1.9.
> 
> -d 
Yeah ... too bad Portage is written in Python, isn't it?

:)