From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2008-06-02T22:01:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems not working


On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:12 +0900, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> There's a lot that surprises me in the recent gem releases (1.0+).
> The fact that there seems to be absolutely no caching of metadata is
> the first point of surprise.  Even if I tell it NOT to go looking for
> the metadata it goes looking for the metadata which indicates to me
> that it's not caching locally at all and has to.  Then the fact, as
> you point out, that it needs to download the whole YAML file instead
> of the compressed version is suspicious.  I'm seriously unimpressed
> with the 1.0+ versions of gem, frankly.
> 
> And yet another mailing list to sign up for?  God DAMN!  How about
> just a bug tracker somewhere?  Is there an URL for that?  I really
> don't want to increase my incoming mail any more than I already have
> it.  :(

Yup, there's the usual complement of RubyForge trackers and such here:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/

Yours,

Tom