From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T10:23:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Randy W. Sims wrote:

# On 12/17/2003 12:30 AM, Weirich, James wrote:
# > 
# >>[...] 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.
# > 
# 
# I've looked briefly at RubyGem (and Rake). Looks great. I didn't find 
# any reference to YAML yet; I was hoping to take a peek. Am I looking in 
# the wrong place? I think it would be great if there was a common 
# specification for meta data about distributions.
# 

Hi Randy.

  When you say "distributions" are you talking about modules or Ruby 
itself?  If you want to know more about ruby gems, try: 
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org.  Let us know if you don't see what you're 
looking for there.  The documentation is very much a work in progress.

Chad