Salut Paul, Would you mind explaining this a little more? It is not clear to me why (as a developer just starting to use Ruby) I would want to get my libraries from MacPorts instead directly from rubyforge or another gem server. In a similar vein, should MacPorts replace CPAN (Perl) or PEAR (PHP)?
I'm replying on-list, as I suspect others have the same question. But feel free to respond privately if this falls outside the scope of the macports list. Merci, -Mark On 11/6/06, Paul Guyot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I wrote a script that generates a ready to use Portfile for any gem. You can find it here: http://www.opendarwin.org/~pguyot/gems_to_portfile.rb The syntax is pretty simple: ./gems_to_portfile.rb gem_file.gem or ./gems_to_portfile.rb gem_name In both cases, it creates a new directory, rb-gem_name, with the Portfile in it. Please note that this portfile uses the new rubyforge_gem fetch syntax (available with the ruby group modification I just committed to the svn repository). The second version will download the gem in the current directory. I need the file to be able to compute the checksums. Besides, if several gems exist and some of them are binaries, it will ask you to choose a version (using the native gem mechanism). This script requires gems (sudo port install rb-rubygems). With such a script, there's no reason to continue to use gem to install ruby gems. Using gem may yield in inconsistencies. I know that most ruby tutorial around say: get ruby with darwinports, then use gem. But I strongly disagree. At some point, we may rename gem binary and put a fake one that displays a warning message. Enjoy! Paul -- Ministre ultraplénipotentiaire en disponibilité. Mobile. Sans baignoire fixe. http://www.kallisys.com/ http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~guyot/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
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