From: Sean Mehan <sean@...>
Date: 2008-05-24T14:28:24+09:00
Subject: Re: gps gems

Lol.

Should someone not electronically matchmake/mediate and get these two
together formally!-)

http://rubyforge.org/projects/gps



<quote who="Tom Copeland">
>
> 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
>
>
>
>


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Sean Mehan
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UHI