From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-01-25T10:57:16+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems news?

(reply at the bottom)

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Francis Hwang wrote:

# 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
# 

RubyGems is pretty much feature-complete and usable.  What we really need 
to do is a release.  As of now you can get the code from CVS and give it a 
try.

Phil, if you'd like to help out, check it out.

Chad