From: "Randy W. Sims" <RandyS@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T14:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On 12/17/2003 12:30 AM, Weirich, James wrote:

> 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.
> 

The current spec is at <http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec.html>

The proposal for next version is at 
<http://www.thepierianspring.org/META-spec.html>

Current usage statistics are <http://www.thepierianspring.org/meta.stats>

Randy.