From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-07-24T06:09:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in a Package Manager in Ruby?


On Jul 23, 2012, at 04:10 , Thomas Sawyer wrote:

> I worked on such a project back 2003/2004 called Baker. I still have the 
> code laying around here, but I abandoned the project mainly b/c its a 
> hell of a lot work and I had too many other things to deal with. Little 
> known fact, "Recipes" was a term I coined that was picked up by 
> GoboLinux Compile system, which was new then. (Get it? "Baker" used 
> "Recipes"). Like the suggested Ruby-Build-Tools, Baker used YAML to 
> store package information.

Well known fact: "Recipes" was used in the Perl Cookbook (get it?) long before Baker came around. According to Amazon, the 1st Edition was published in August 1, 1998 and I bought my first copy on September 4, 1998.