On 24/07/2012, at 1:03 AM, Matt Wagner wrote:
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>> To sumarize: I think the main issue for non fedora
development
>> machines are not updated .gem files in rubygem rpms.
I'm not sure I understand this 100%. For RPM-based distros, can't we
simply keep the RPMs reasonably up-to-date? (It seems like a good part
of the process can be automated, as well.) And for non-RPM distros, we
should just use "real" gems.
Though honestly, the whole notion of packaging gems as RPMs seems weird
to me, but I guess there's precedent with other systems (e.g., CPAN). It
just feels like we're trying to encapsulate one package management
system inside another, which sounds like insanity.
As a data point, this came through another mailing list:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116044105212961820435/posts/3H9BBynrfDf
It looks like OpenSuSE's equivalent to yum, called zypper, has added
native support for Ruby gem's and Python's things (eggs?) and similar.
Maybe adding gem support to yum would be the go?
+ Justin
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