From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-11-30T04:26:30+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the new hotness for packaging gems?

On Saturday 28 November 2009 11:14:10 pm James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Roger Pack wrote:
> >> In this age of Gemcutter, what should I be using to generate my
> >> gemspecs/build my gems/etc?
> >
> > jeweler is what I'm using these days.
> 
> I've seen several uses of it now and it always strikes me that it's just
>  about the same size as a traditional gem specification.  Which problem
>  were we trying to solve with all of these fancy packagers again?  :)

Mostly kidding, too, but I have to agree -- the only gems I've actually built 
lately have been small enough that I don't see a real advantage to doing it 
programmatically. The last time I did, the only real point I saw was getting a 
list of files -- only needed when I was letting Github build gems, and 
directory globbing was not allowed in those gempsecs.