From: Stephen Steiner <ssteiner@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T19:47:21+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA vs. RubyGems?


> I'm not familiar with rubygems, but raa is the ruby equiv of cpan 
> unless you're referring to the cpan module for retrieving other 
> modules and dependencies.

Yes, I was referring to the cpan capabilities i.e. automatic retrieval 
of modules and any dependencies and automatic installation thereof.

RubyGems seems to be an attempt to emulate, and surpass, the 
functionality of the Perl cpan program.

It can be found at:
	http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1027

It doesn't seem to cooperate with RAA in any way and maintains its own, 
separate directory structure outside the normal Ruby installation.  The 
concept is nice, as far as it goes, but it is not as well integrated 
with RAA and Ruby as CPAN/cpan is with Perl.

Thanks for the info!

Steve

On May 7, 2004, at 12:44 AM, jm wrote:
>
> Jeff.
>
> On 07/05/2004, at 12:55 PM, Stephen Steiner wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm brand new to this list and to Ruby.
>>
>> I'm confused as to what might be the equivalent of Perl's CPAN on 
>> Ruby.
>>
>> I've found RAA and RubyGems but they don't seem to be integrated in 
>> any way and RAA seems just to be a list of stuff that has to be 
>> downloaded and installed separately.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Sorry if this is a duplicate query, I didn't find anything like this 
>> wherever I looked.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
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