Hi, I am looking at upgrading buildrs dependency on rubygems to a later version and being more explicit about the version. i.e. Something like
spec.add_dependency 'rubygems-update', '>= 1.8.6' However as I was going through this I noticed we are using a whole whackload of deprecated features that is planned to be remove from rubygems in the next few months, in particular "Gem:SourceIndex". We mostly use the plugin to ensure the build has necessary dependencies before it rus (i.e. if you have added it to build.yaml) and to install gems as part of :gem packaging. As both of these features were broken up until a few releases ago I would guess they are barely used. In some environments some of these features continue to be broken (in particular installing of gems). The ruby world seems to be going in a few different directions to manage dependencies (i.e. rvm, bundler, ...) but most of them involve the runtime managing them. So I propose that we remove all the usage of these features and just consider the rubygems library as a read-only interface. We could change the startup scanning of build.yaml and rather than trying to install missing dependencies just print an error on the console and exit. For the :install phase of gem package I think it would be best to let people manage it in a way that makes sense in their environment. We could add documentation to fill this gap. Thoughts? -- Cheers, Peter Donald
