I currently spend all my time in Ruby, but I fortunately don't have
to deal much with RubyGems. I say fortunately, because, like all
software, it's hate-worthy. I personally think it's a bit more hate-
worthy than it should be, and here's an example.
Some people run released versions of
On 9-Nov-06, at 11:42 PM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
So I've not even attempted to do any ruby programming. But I have done
endless amounts of programming in a dozen other languages.
That post was meaningless gibberish to me. I find it difficult to
believe that ruby has come up with such completely
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:47 -0800, Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote:
Uh, you're hating ruby for calling it's package management system
RubyGems? That's like hating perl for CPAN or php for whatever it
is php has. Now obviously CPAN is hate-worthy, but not for it's name,
surely.
And
On 11/10/06, Martin Ebourne li...@ebourne.me.uk wrote:
CPAN is great as a website, and that's where it should have stayed.
The web site came AFTER.
Yves
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Luke Kanies wrote:
I currently spend all my time in Ruby, but I fortunately don't have to
deal much with RubyGems. I say fortunately, because, like all software,
it's hate-worthy. I personally think it's a bit more hate-worthy than
it should be, and here's an example.
Some people run
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:33:28AM +, Nik Clayton wrote:
Luke Kanies wrote:
*I* don't mind. Ruby doesn't mind. But oh now, RubyGems declares that
I cannot have a version number that looks like that:
Malformed version number string 0.20.0-svn
Not to diminish your hate, but that's a
On 11/10/06, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:12:46PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote:
This means I can't even use my Rakefile ...
Is that a typo, or have the Ruby crowd reinvented make? Make itself is
hateful enough, without having another incomplete and
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:40:42PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
On 11/10/06, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Is that a typo, or have the Ruby crowd reinvented make? Make itself is
hateful enough, without having another incomplete and broken version to
put up with
David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:12:46PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote:
This means I can't even use my Rakefile ...
Is that a typo, or have the Ruby crowd reinvented make?
It seems to be a universal urge: Module::Build, Sconstruct, ...
And yes, it is
On 11/10/06, Sean O'Rourke sorou...@cs.ucsd.edu wrote:
It seems to be a universal urge: Module::Build, Sconstruct, ...
And yes, it is enormously hateful. Just be glad people haven't
(that I know of) started using Rake (gag) to build project not
written in Ruby.
The name `rake` is just wrong,
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:21:49AM -0600, Stephen Deken wrote:
On 11/10/06, Sean O'Rourke sorou...@cs.ucsd.edu wrote:
And end up further into the other Great Ruby Hate of giving
programs clever names you'll never guess? Does the library
dealing with X have X in its name, or is it named
David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes:
The rot set in far far earlier, with 'awt' and 'swing'. Neither name
cries out widget set to me.
To be fair, both are acronyms: Advanced Widget Toolkit and
Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay.
hth,
/s
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:40:23AM -0800, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
To be fair
Wrong list.
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* Sean O'Rourke sorou...@cs.ucsd.edu [2006-11-10 07:40 -0800]:
To be fair, both are acronyms: Advanced Widget Toolkit and
Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay.
And Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay isn't a horrid name for a widget
library?
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:34:10PM -0500, Phil!Gregory wrote:
* Sean O'Rourke sorou...@cs.ucsd.edu [2006-11-10 07:40 -0800]:
To be fair, both are acronyms: Advanced Widget Toolkit and
Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay.
And Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay isn't a horrid name for a widget
library?
A
On 10 nov 2006, at 16.40, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes:
The rot set in far far earlier, with 'awt' and 'swing'. Neither name
cries out widget set to me.
To be fair, both are acronyms: Advanced Widget Toolkit and
Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay.
hth,
/s
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:32:25PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
I expect that both awt and swing have now been deprecated, as
they're at least five minutes old and so are hopelessly uncool.
Their replacement is probably called something obvious like
'doublelattemocha' or 'Brian'.
Given your
David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:12:46PM -0600, Luke Kanies wrote:
This means I can't even use my Rakefile ...
Is that a typo, or have the Ruby crowd reinvented make?
It seems to be a universal urge: Module::Build, Sconstruct, ...
And yes, it is
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