[Fxruby-users] RE: [Q] Alternatives to the source RubyGem format?

[Jeff K. <tl...@co...>]

Having just installed Ruby on Linux for the first time I must confess
that I was a bit disconcerted that I had to install rubygems before I
could install FXRuby. As I remembered installing it on Windows a year
or so ago installing FXRuby was pretty darn simple. 

However, once I got my head around what rubygems was doing I found it
petty convenient. I particularly value the uninstall ability of
rubygems since I had to try several times to get it right due to my
non-standard installation preferences (aka Linux ignorance) of the
Fox libraries. I've always found Linux installations to be obscure.
And if you do any serious Linux work you're familiar with the
terminal so that's not a hinderance. So, I see a real advantage to
using Rubygems on Linux installations. In addition, I see real
advantages to having a consistent installation routine across all
platforms. Perhaps the gem files can be cross bred with *.rbw to ease
the burden on our Windows brothers?

--jeff