Gregory Brown wrote: > Hey guys, > > I had a strange problem on RubyForge and have forwarded it to you on > Tom Copeland's request to see if you could shed some light on what > went wrong. > > Many thanks. Greg > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gregory Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Feb 21, 2006 1:42 PM > Subject: Weird gem problem, might be pretty dangerous > To: Tom Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > i originally released two gems, ruport and ruport-lean > > On windows and debian, when I type gem install ruport > it grabs ruport-lean instead! > > I deleted ruport-lean and renamed it to lean-ruport to avoid the ambiguity. > ruport-lean has not been taken out of rotation yet though, and it has > been overnight > > But this leads me to think this might be really dangerous. > > What would happen if I made a gem called rails-is-totally-awesome. > > Would that break gem install rails ??
Yep, and Eric Hodel did just that a while ago (released a gem named rails-analysis or something like that). A fix has been applied to the CVS repository, so the next version of gems will guard against that. -- -- Jim Weirich [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas) _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
