On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:33:00PM +1300, Stuart Rackham wrote: > Firstly, a big thank you to Paul and collaborators for creating ruby-core > package. Thanks, did not do much really. Only wanted to start the some discussion about this, sadly it has died again without a conclusion. Note that there are still some problems with my packages and that I hope to address some of those issues soon. > I whole heartedly support any move towards a single installable > 'ruby' package that installs everything that the pristine Ruby sources > would install. That would mean changing the meaning of the 'ruby' package, which seems still to be the sole point of discussion. So I would like to ask both Ruby package users and Ruby software packages for their opinion on the whole thing to get a better overview over what is in peoples minds. > Can I add my two cents worth and suggest that 'ruby' also include: > > - ri. It's part of the standard Ruby 1.8.2 tarball install as well as > being incredibly useful. Our proposal was for ruby to recommend ri, which as much as depends only one can opt out (since it's still a bit big) for it. But it's debatable indeed since 'ruby' is meant as The Whole Package (tm). > - ruby1.8-dev. Without the development headers Ruby extension > libraries and rubygems that contain extension libraries fail to > install. Yes, would be a good one for Recommend too. Still had a problem building some thing when I thought I had it all, a few days ago. > - rubygems. Increasingly this is the ruby packaging system of choice, > I noted that there's already an unofficial rubygems package. Yes, it's being worked on, as well as RPA (which still is a better alternative IMO, at least from a Debian developer/package maintainer perspective). They'll both first have to mature a bit I think (the software and the package). > [...] I was about to reformat my hard disk > drive in frustration and revert to Fedora when I discovered your > posting. Well it's not THAT much work to install it all, is it? :) Only inconveniant and counter-intuitive I agree. Glad you decided to stay and give comments though! Greetings, Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | JID: paul@luon.net University of Technology, The Netherlands | email: paulvt@debian.org >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG: finger paul@luon.net
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