Re: ITP: libcmd-ruby -- library for building line-oriented command interpreters in Ruby
Ar 15/04/2005 am 18:53, ysgrifennodd David Nusinow:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 12:39:25AM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > We might take Ruby Stdlib route then... for now there are only two small
> > packages. If we accumalate more, we could bundle them and still have
> > virtual packages pointing at this one, if someone just wants the `cmd'
> > library.
> > However, the significant difference with stdlib is there are several
> > upstream sources, so the syncing/versioning/bundling problem will get bigger,
> > the many different upstreams are involved.
>
> Yeah, I'm reconsidering. I'm still leaning towards the bundling idea, but
> more the way you describe it, with individual packages that can all be
> pulled in by a libruby-extras metapackage.
Bundling code from different sources into one source package is
distasteful to me too. Or, at least, it is in cases where the different
pieces of software aren't really related. So I think a dependencies-only
-extras package idea is a good one.
> I'm also very interested in putting all the libraries that are pulled in by
> the metapackage under a single umbrella project on alioth, with a single
> svn repo for them all. The libs could be team maintained (by The Debian
> Ruby Maintainers?) with anyone in the uploaders field who wants to help.
> Thoughts?
This sounds good to me.
--
Dafydd
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