From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2011-05-13T06:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 1.8 treats warnings as errors for C extensions, fails to install RedCloth?

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 23:00, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:

> On May 12, 2011, at 03:35 , Quintus wrote:

>> Obviously RedCloth generates some warnings during compilation, and now
>> RubyGems advises the compiler to treat them as errors--as far as I know
>> this wasn't the case with previous versions of RubyGems, because some
>> days ago RedCloth installed without problems (no, no new release of
>> RedCloth happened in the meantime). This causes the installation of
>> RedCloth to fail.

> Can we stop with the knee-jerk reaction to blame rubygems for everything including the national deficit?
>
> Rubygems calls make/rake/whatever. That's it.

Was this really necessary?  Make the output clearer instead of
complaining that people don’t understand it.