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Re: A question for the Ruby maintainer: RubyGems?


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Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Heh, that's cool, thanks for saving me the effort, Yaakov.

Well, IIRC, thank Gentoo for that solution.

> Corinna already indicated her willingness to give over maintainership into
> capable hands.  I don't use Ruby regularly (just starting to dabble in
> it), so I'm reluctant to make a grab for it.  If you feel confident in
> your ability to keep Cygwin Ruby going, would you like to offer to
> maintain it?

Not yet, although I'll try building it from source and see how it goes;
there are a few very minor things I'd like to see changed.

> Also, if there is a maintainership change, and since you've already
> packaged RubyGems (and are presumably willing to maintain it as well), it
> might (IMHO) be a good idea to fold RubyGems into the main Ruby package.

I disagree with this one.  The rubygems system isn't (yet) so integral
to ruby like CPAN to perl.  It's a separate package upstream with its
own release cycle, so I think it should be a separate package here as well.


Yaakov
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