From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2008-05-24T07:24:07+09:00
Subject: Re: gps gems


On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 05:02 +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
> On May 23, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> > what's the deal with the gps gems?
> >
> > `gem install gps` installs gps-0.0.1 by Nolan Darilek.
> >
> > If you download the gem from http://rubyforge.org/projects/gps then  
> > you get gps-0.0.1.5 by Sascha Teske.
> >
> > The licenses are different, some of the code is the same....
> 
> There are probably two of the same name from different sources.  Since  
> the older one already exists the newer one will not enter the index.   
> Check with Tom Copeland to see where gps-0.0.1 came from.

Yup, the "gps" gem is from the "hermes" project:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/hermes/

Yours,

Tom