From: "Weirich, James" <James.Weirich@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T14:30:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

From: Randy W. Sims [mailto:RandyS@ThePierianSpring.org] 

[... Chad mentions RubyGems ...]

> Will this include a builder like perl's MakeMaker[1] or its successor 
> Module::Build[2]? 

Currently, no.  We are first targetting pure-Ruby libraries and
platform-dependent binary distributions.  Eventually I think we will have to
cover building from source.  Personally, I would like to see Rake move in
the direction of supporting source builds, but I have only a little
experience in details of building cross platform C programs.

> [...] I've also been pushing an update[3] of the META Specification[4] 
> that CPAN is now being populated with.
> 
> I'm curious as to whether you've considered meta data for ruby 
> distributions,

Yes.  It is stored as YAML in the RubyGem.

> and is there a chance Ruby and Perl can use the same 
> format for meta data (which is simply YAML file with certain defined 
> fields that describe a distribution). If I can help in any 
> way let me know.

Where can we see what the Perl definition.  It would be interesting to
compare.

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