From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T05:33:18+09:00
Subject: Re: A Heartfelt Plea for a Universal Open Source Package Management System

On 1/13/07, matt <matt@kettlewell.net> wrote:
> That was my point exactly!  Rails is nothing more than an extension of
> Ruby via Gems packaging, but now there are more choices (or should I say
> confusions), that break away from universality.  I know this is a Ruby
> list and not Rails, so I'll break with this:  The use of a universal
> packaging system would flow out to any extensions of the language as
> well, so a if Gems was the way to go, then, Rails would have to as well
> (in a perfect, utopian, no more advancement, socialistic kind of way),
> but one that would still fit the bill of the original topic.

There are folks who are working on a system for enabling gems as
plug-ins to Rails, IIRC. They wanted to depend on certain things
(e.g., autorequire) that are going away, but they can enable such
things with convention and scaffolding better than they can with
misfeatures.

-austin
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