From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T22:09:25+09:00
Subject: Re: gem API


On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2008, at 20:26 PM, John Joyce wrote:
>> On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 17:37 PM, John Joyce wrote:
>>>> What I am doing is building a gui wrapper in Cocoa on OS X for  
>>>> common gem commands.
>>>> I want to later add gem install and gem uninstall, but I'm not  
>>>> sure what the best way would be to handle gems that have more  
>>>> involved install/uninstall processes, such as when the user is  
>>>> prompted for [y/n]? input on whether to include a dependency or  
>>>> something in that install/uninstall process.
>>>
>>> Talk to Chad Wooley.  He's writing a gem installer tool.
>>>
>> Ok, thanks,
>> one other thing,
>> I'd rather not go hacking gem, but If possible, as a feature request,
>> can we have a flag that turns off the headings?
>
> No.  If you're going to be writing a tool, use the API the  
> QueryCommand uses.  If you find yourself duplicating too much,  
> propose a patch to refactor into something more usable.
>
>> From digging through gem's code it certainly looks reasonably  
>> possible.
>> things such as
>> \n*** LOCAL GEMS ***\n\n
>>
>> and
>> Updating metadata for 13 gems.........
>>
>> It would be convenient as heck to have those easily turned off by  
>> a command line flag so that parsing the output is cleaner.
>
> The RubyGems API provides for this, investigate rubygems/ 
> user_interaction.rb (I think)
>
>> How can I contact Chad Wooly?
>
> Check the archives of the rubygems-developers list for details.
>
Many thanks!
I will look into these things! (as time permits... )