Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-09 Thread Roy Wright
Jeffrey Gardner wrote: Big Thanks (TM) to wltjr, Christopher Satwell, and Roy Wright (right up the road in Chappell Hill - Love the smoked sausage!)! With those leads and some upstream love I hope to have jmol up and running soon! Looks like you found me! Right up the road from where

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-08 Thread Roy Wright
Jeffrey Gardner wrote: Michael Cummings wrote: So, fellow devs, what's new with development? As for me, I'm fighting with jmol-11.0, an awesome java app that relies on a lot of bundled jars. I've been able to use local versions of: dev-java/ant-core dev-java/ant-contrib

[gentoo-dev] ruby gems vs. ebuilds

2006-10-05 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Can someone point me to any documentation on why ebuilds are being created for ruby gems? Gem is the a nice, easy to use, standard package manager for ruby. The problem that I see is if you install the same package via both gem and portage all sorts of bad things happen. For the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ruby gems vs. ebuilds

2006-10-05 Thread Roy Wright
Boris Fersing wrote: AFAIK, the ruby related ebuilds use gem. For example rails has in his ebuild : inherit ruby gems and if you look in the gems eclass : [snip] And it's the same for rake ! The problem might be (that's a supposition only) that gem installs the files in the image

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Question on SLOTting libraries

2006-04-05 Thread Roy Wright
Anthony Gorecki wrote: On Wednesday, April 05, 2006 16:08, m h wrote: My question is how do other packages that build against a slotted library know where to find the library? Generally, there is no need to do that in an ebuild. The software package's configure script will