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Re: A question for the Ruby maintainer: RubyGems?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:23:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: A question for the Ruby maintainer: RubyGems?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0601181900380.20867@access1.cims.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
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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