From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-01-24T17:54:59+09:00
Subject: RubyGems news?

After RubyConf2002 some people decided that a package 
management/installation system should be developed and so they made 
raainstall.  Now, there's not much activity with raainstall - it sort of 
works as-is now, but work seems to have stopped on it.

At RubyConf2003 there was apparently another uproar about package 
management/installation and thus rubygems was born and received some 
attention for a few weeks.  Will rubygems meet the same fate as 
raainstall?

Will RubyConf2004 spawn yet another package management scheme that is 
destined to fall into obsurity...?

I guess it's not as big of an issue now that 1.8.x includes a lot more 
packages, but it would still be nice to have a good package management 
system for Ruby... 

Still hoping, but not holding my breath.

Phil