Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Ruby 1.9.1 is supposed to be released in december 2007, and will be > ruby's stable release. > > There's a lot of things that should be discussed before that, and we > don't have much time: The ruby packaging policy has been discussed off and on but never concludes into a cohesive document. I think it would be really good if Debian Ruby could produce a Ruby Policy similar to Perl Policy and Python Policy. (Or perhaps I am missing something fundamental?) Thanks for working on this problem. > - library installation paths (see #446220): > a common complain heard about Debian's ruby is that we install all > libs in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8, mixing stdlib and third party libs. It > would be a good idea to move away from that in ruby1.9. +1. Yes please. > - rubygems. ruby 1.9.1 will include rubygems in stdlib (it hasn't been > imported yet, according to drbrain@#ruby-lang). This means that we > will have to decide whether we continue to package libs from .tgz, or > if we want to package some rubygems too. > > I had a long discussion with Eric Hodel (brbrain), and I think that we > should package gems. +1. I think gems need to be packaged if only to allow users to continue to 'apt-get install something' that needs it. > But there's a number of issues that should be dealt > with first: > - when run 'normally', gem should not install to /usr/lib/ruby/gems, but > to some place under /usr/local, to avoid clashes between debian > packages and manually installed gems. A perl module from cpan can be installed by a non-root user that is in the 'staff' group. I think this would be good if the same thing could be done using 'gem install'. I think 'gem install' should install non-packaged files into /usr/local by default. > - binaries from rubygem packages should be installed to /usr/bin, while Agreed. > binaries from manually installed gems should go to /usr/local. Binaries from 'gem install' into /usr/local/bin/ ?? I am thinking yes. This is the same as for Perl's cpan installations. > - rdoc documentation should be installed to /usr/share/doc > - what about ri documentation ? Documentation from 'gem install' into /usr/local/share/doc/ . ?? Bob
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