Rubygems has many issues which were raised on ruby mailing lists but
never addressed by the rubygems developers. It's therefore not possible
to have rubygems-based packages in Debian or Ubuntu.
For more details, refer to :
http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html
I'm not sure what
The problem isn't specific to rails. I do a lot of development that
requires Ruby libraries not available from the repos, and some of those
in turn depend on rubygems. It's analogous to cpan for Perl (which is
packaged) and pretty much ubiquitous among Ruby developers. I've
installed rubygems
Lucas, is there any reason why we can't just sync the rubygems package
from Debian experimental? What state is it in?
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It sounds like philosophical issues. In which case we either need:
- ubuntu packages for alle the different rails ruby add-ons, without gems
- onofficial packages for gems (perhaps in universe, for all I care)
Although, since it isn't a liscense issue, I do feel debian/ubuntu
shouldn't push
On 8/21/06, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It sounds like philosophical issues. In which case we either need:
- ubuntu packages for alle the different rails ruby add-ons, without gems
- onofficial packages for gems (perhaps in universe, for all I care)
Although, since it
