On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Antony Blakey <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
I think gems generally work. The trouble I have is with bootstrapping a fresh environment. Too many version idiosyncrasies and the ruby-dev package convention always seems to get newcomers the first time... -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
