2013/8/26 Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> > > On Aug 26, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > > > This patch fixes compatibility with ruby 1.9. > > > > There are far far far deeper issues with ruby 1.8.x != 1.9.x behavior > that need to be addressed. > > There is no "consensus" (no even a goal) stated that might lead to > a more useful implementation. Instead there are gobs of macro magic > glue to enable/disable and otherwise diddle up band-aids to a fundamentally > flawed approach. > > Please read my comments (Sept 2009 iirc, +/- a year, was September) > on <rpm-devel@rpm5.org> on fundamental design differences between > "embedding" (as undertaken by me @rpm5.org) and "bindings" for a build > system in ruby (as my existing implementation was (ab)used for). > > I see no rational way to extend RPM+RUBY usefully and portably by > applying Yet More Macro Madness (in distro-du-jour dialect), with > known and large differences in "embedding" behavior between > ruby 1.8.x != 1.9.x implementations, particularly when all the > cool kids interest is in creating a native ruby packaging system, > not in devising more "standard" ruby *.rpm packaging. > This isn't about embedding ruby interpreter, but rather macros & helper scripts to ease and try streamline ruby packaging, ie. see it's adoption in Mandriva: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Ruby
Simplifying things further, there's also a generator in place for this to make packaging of ruby gems *very* easy: http://gitorious.org/rpm5distro/gem2rpm5/<http://gitorious.org/rpm5distro/gem2rpm5/source/d9363a5b9b34c741a9ff30939ecc7455ec3f4d0b:> This is what all ruby packages in cooker has been (re)generated with since.. -- Regards, Per Øyvind
