From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-01-12T02:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Tattle - The Ruby Census

On 2007-01-11, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:

> * Users -- don't waste the time and space of people who aren't in
> the above list.

+1 .  Surely the point of a packaging system is to serve people who
just want to "wash and go".  Why compromise that because someone else
has a problem?  "Do one thing, do it well."

> * Sysadmins -- don't add another to the list of software they have
> to audit.

+1 .  (I'm a sysadmin.)

> * Developers -- don't insult their intelligence. They're doing
> something outside the scope of a typical user, and know how to read
> a README and gem install hoe.

+1 .  To make it even easier, why not have a "foo" gem for users and a
"foo-dev" gem for developers?  Maybe a simple packaging convention is
good enough.

> * RubyGems -- don't abuse the "run-time dependency" list just to get 
> around the lack of a develop-time one.

+1 .  Fix the real problem, don't break something else trying to paper
it over.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty