Hello Rubygems developers, I'm hoping to get rubygems bundled with the OpenSolaris OS, and have some questions about rubygems compatibility/stability etc., which I couldn't find direct answers to. Any thoughts/pointers are most appreciated.
-> Are rubygems versions compatible with previous releases(or previous minor releases . . . or previous point releases)? -> are certain releases labeled "development releases". ie., like in Ruby? -> Does the integration into Ruby 1.9 mean that rubygems will follow the same concept of development and production releases that Ruby[3] does? -> Stability of the gem format is implied in [1]. Will the gem format be stable across a set of versions of rubygems? If yes, what's the range of versions across the format will remain stable? -> It seems that the repository format changed in an incompatible way, in a certain release[2]. This was worked around by having install.rb migrate the repository to the new format. I'm curious if other changes in the repository format are imminent . . . and if they are, are we planning to provide migration programs? Thanks, -ps [1] http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2578 [2] http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubygems-developers/2004-March/000199.html [3] http://blogs.sun.com/prashant/entry/whats_a_stable_ruby_version _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
