For (2) you can always contact [email protected] or support.github.com to
get a gem removed. No, it's not as fast as if you could do it yourself, but
we do try to remove gems as soon as possible.
With regard to (3), we have talked with folks in the past about other
systems like PEAR, and we're more than happy to consider adding new
systems... but I think what we like to see more are systems that are smarter
and aware of version control, like Ruby on Rails's plugin installer, and
Chris's own replacement for gem, rip.
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Chris Wanstrath <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:33 AM, trans<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So I gave it some thought and I think a potential solution for
> > improvement in the future is to allow the developer to designate a
> > "distribution folder" in their repository in which the packages can be
> > stored. GitHub can still automatically generate the .gem if the
> > developer wants. Or, they can just build their own gem(s) and use git
> > to push it to the repo. Since git is so efficient and the .gem has to
> > be stored somewhere anyway, it's really not a big deal to have it in
> > the repo. This way the developer can remove gems he/she no longer
> > wants to support at his/her discretion, as well as add platform gems
> > if need be. It also opens GitHub up for supporting other distributed
> > packages systems in the future, such as Debians' apt-get.
>
> That's not a bad idea. In-house we've been talking about using
> GitHub's "Downloads" functionality - we'll serve any .gem you upload.
>
> To streamline the process, we're talking about adding "upload"
> capabilities to the GitHub gem. So upload a new gem might be as easy
> as `gh upload blah.gem`.
>
> --
> Chris Wanstrath
> http://github.com/defunkt
>
> >
>
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