Re: [Fxruby-users] So what does everyone think about RubyGems?

[Rich <ri...@li...>]

I'm always going to pitch for the easiest to _install_ (which since I'm on a
windows os would mean a binary).

When you say you'd prefer to not support all of the above - does that mean
tarball -or- binary, or does that mean gem -or- non-gem?

If I can get a binary through a gem then I'm all for supporting the gem
version of distribution.

-Rich


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ly...@kn...>
To: <fxr...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: [Fxruby-users] So what does everyone think about RubyGems?


> All,
>
> Traditionally I've distributed FXRuby as a source tarball and Win32
> installer executables. As many of you may be aware, a new packaging and
> distibution system for Ruby applications and libraries was kicked off at
> last year's Ruby Conference in Austin. This project has a lot of momentum
> behind it (see http://rubygems.rubyforge.org) and it seems likely that
> RubyGems will become a standard part of Ruby in the future.
>
> I'm strongly considering switching over a completely Gems-based
distribution
> of FXRuby for the 1.2 series, but I'd like to throw this out to you guys
for
> comments. I am specifically thinking that there would be (1) a "source"
Gem,
> which you'd download and run to build the code from sources (much like the
> current source tarball); and (2) one or more "binary" Gems (probably
Windows
> only), which wouldn't require compilation (thus replacing the Win32
> installer executables).
>
> What do you guys think? This is certainly not a done deal, but on the
other
> hand I'd prefer to not support "all of the above". The advantages of going
> with a Gems-based approach (in my mind) are the versioning and
> dependency-checking capabilities that Gems provide. No disadvantages
> immediately come to mind, but that's why I'm asking you for your feedback.
;)
>
> Thanks in advance for your thoughts,
>
> Lyle
>
>
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