RubyGems news?

[Phil Tomson]

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

 

[Dan Janowski]

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.

Not being familiar with either, what was wrong with raainstall that
rubygems was started? I would say that if Ruby has an Achilles heel, I
think this (unified library package system) seems like it. Subordinate
is library versioning.

Dan

 

[Francis Hwang]

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