From: sera@... (Francis Hwang)
Date: 2004-01-25T03:29:56+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems news?

You can see the RubyGems documentation at
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl , and Rich Kilmer has a
pretty extensive example at
http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2003/11/rubygems_lives.html .

From the outside it looks like RubyGems still has a ways to go, but is
definitely usable enough to do the basics. I've packaged Lafcadio as a
rubygem, and I believe others are doing so right now.

Francis


ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in message news:<buta4802lml@enews4.newsguy.com>...
> 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