From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2004-03-22T05:55:00+09:00
Subject: What to gem?

Hi,

I'm trying to get-up-to-date with Ruby community happenings and jump on 
the RubyGems band wagon for an upcoming Rockit release.

A q arises: What to include in a gem?

Seems many of the existing gems includes most of the files traditionally 
supplied in a tarball. To me that seems kind of strange since the files 
will end up in a dir which is "hidden" (well not really but mentally) 
from the user and thus not easily available/visible. Also if everything 
goes into the gem (README, docs, samples etc) then it is included in 
every version and there might be bloat/duplication etc. So my instinct 
tells me to only put the necessary files into the gem but then the gem 
cannot replace a normal tarball since users will not get the README, 
docs, samples, tests etc. So in the future we will still need ordinary 
tarballs even if gems take on? Can someone ease my confusion?

Regards,

Robert Feldt