John, Thanks. But the bottom line is - it's giving me information about the repository _in general_, not information that pertains to _my_ collection of gems.
Is this correct? I still don't know what it means. Does it mean that 21 gems were somehow modified in the repository since the last time I ran the gem command? If that's what it means, I don't think it makes a lot of sense to show this message "Need to update xxx gems..." unless it's qualified to be very clear that this is a message about the internal state of the gem command execution context and has nothing to do with the end user's local repository of gems. I'm not sure I need to see detailed internal synchronization messages for the "gem" application. Having said that, I won't worry any more when I see the message :). Thanks, WG John Gabriele wrote: >On 7/3/06, Wes Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Mauricio, >> >>Can you explain this more? Does this mean that there are 21 gems >>available on RubyForge that I am simply not using? >> >>Why do I care about gems that I'm not using? >> >> > >The RubyForge gem repository gets updated regularly with new and updated gems. > >When you run the gem command -- before doing anything else -- it has >to make sure it's got a current list of all available gems. With >previous versions of RubyGems (< 0.9.0), the gem command would have to >download the entire current list of gems (for a given repository -- by >default just the RubyForge one) whenever it noticed it was out of >date. > >The current (0.9.0) gem command downloads this list incrementally. >When it tells you that there are 21 gems available, I think it's >partly supposed be a reassuring note to let you know that the >repository has been significantly updated since the last time you >checked. :) > >---John >_______________________________________________ >Rubygems-developers mailing list >[email protected] >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > > > _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
