A question for the Ruby maintainer: RubyGems?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 18 19:06, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Hi, Corinna,
> 
> As far as I understand, RubyGems is the Ruby equivalent of Perl's CPAN.
> Is there a particular reason why it's not part of the ruby package?  Does
> the ruby package contain alternative mechanisms for installing standard
> Ruby modules from the global repository?  Would you be interested in
> including it in the next Ruby releases, or should I look into matching its
> packaging structure with "ruby" and proposing it as a separate package?

I'm not interested in maintaining mroe than the base package.  If you
want to add RubyGems, feel free to either prepare a separate package,
or to take over ruby maintainership entirely (it build OOTB anyway).
I have no problems either way.


Corinna

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