Re: Ruby on Rails and pkgsrc

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 8:19 AM -0800 3/20/06, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> >  Among other things that gems provides is a way to handle
> >  multiple versions of the same package installed at the
> >  same time.  Ruby scripts can specify which versions of
> >  some package that they will work with, and the same OS
> >  can easily support different scripts which "must have"
> >  incompatible versions of a given gem.
>
> Just want to mention that pkgsrc provides a feature like
> this also also --  where multiple versions of same package
> can be installed at same time.  It is not well tested (and
> not all packages have been checked), but I have used it
> some myself.

I'm not saying anyone should abandon pkgsrc for managing
other packages, since the vast vast majority of packages
have absolutely nothing to do with ruby.  But I would not
abandon ruby-gems only to spend a lot of time and effort
trying to re-package every single gem in some other form.
That is a lot of duplicated effort on an ongoing basis,
and I'm sure that much effort would see much higher rewards
if spent on other areas.

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