On 03/02/2009, at 12:42 AM, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:
that's one idea I was thinking about myself a while back but I didn't get around trying it. I wonder how happy you are with this "gems as generic package manager" approach? It would be cool if you could post examples into some pastebin, if sharing that is at all possible.
I have to figure out the technical details of how to get it up on github, given it includes a heap of binary components and erlang and couchdb.
Sounds like something that might make deployment in general a bit more fun across different OSes.
It makes deployment trivial, and you get all the benefits of rubygems updating. I do hear however regular complaints about rubygems reliability, which gives me some pause.
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