From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>
Date: 2007-11-22T06:33:59+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 0.9.5

On Nov 21, 2007 9:35 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007, at 10:24 , ara.t.howard wrote:
> > On Nov 21, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> >> System-wide doesn't necessarily mean /etc, default values for GEM_*
> >> could be stored for example in rbconfig.rb, as part of the 1.9 build.
> >
> > bingo.  that sounds like a great idea.
>
> And this is how RubyGems works right now, *unless* you want to do
> something different.
>
> In that case you have two options:
>
> a) use GEM_* environment variables
> b) patch rbconfig.rb
> [...]

Well, it's not easy to set up multiple gem repositories from
rbconfig.rb... unless you create ENV['GEM_PATH'] there, which should
work fine. But creating temporary environment variables from
rbconfig.rb seems a bit weird, to me.

Laurent