From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-03-15T08:29:18+09:00
Subject: [ANN] RubyGems 0.2.0

The first public release of RubyGems (http://rubygems.rubyforge.org) 
has just been uploaded to RubyForge.

A concept initially demonstrated by Ryan Leavengood at the first 
RubyConf, RubyGems has been a long time coming. It is a package manager 
for Ruby libraries, handling library versioning (allows co-existence of 
multiple versions of a single Ruby library), search, download, and 
installation.

You can download RubyGems from its RubyForge files section 
(http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=126).  We have 
tested on Windows XP, Mac OSX, and Linux.  We would love to hear 
reports, both negative and positive, of experiences on other platforms.

We have put a few samples gems in the repository at 
http://gems.rubyforge.org.  This is the default location that the 
remote installer will go to when doing a remote installation.  If you 
have libraries you would like to include, please send the gem files to 
either myself or Rich Kilmer (rich(at)infoether.com) and we'll add 
them.  Going forward, we'll have more robust mechanisms for updating 
the repository, possibly including RubyForge file release integration.  
You can search the repository like so:

     tashi-delek:~ chadfowler$ gem --search=doom
     ruby-doom-0.0.7

A brief overview of features present in the 0.2.0 release:
* Install and uninstall gems locally
* Search, download, and install gems via HTTP
* Manage dependencies between gems
* Auto-generate documentation from rdoc
* Serve gems via webrick or CGI

And on the TODO shortlist:
* Deal with binary libraries
* Support for Ruby applications (as opposed to just libraries)
* Auto-generate RPM, pkg, windows installer, etc.


User documentation is available at 
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?UserDoc.
RubyGems requires ruby 1.8.1

Have fun!

Thanks,
The RubyGems developers