Hey there! I haven't been following RubyGems dev lately, but I promised a while back to open a discussion about making it possible for third-party projects to extend RubyGems in a standard way. Specifically, I'm thinking of JRuby's support for installing Java libraries from Maven using RubyGems...
gem install mvn:org.clojure:clojure Currently we have a few patches to our installed copy of RG 1.5.1. The changes aren't extensive, but they're invasive where they exist. I believe they patch two aspects: spec retrieval (to formulate a synthetic spec from Maven data) and remote fetching (to build a gem from the Maven artifact on-the-fly). The bulk of the Maven-specific logic exists in separate code not part of the RG codebase, but we do have to hook a few things. So, I have a few questions to kick this off: * Is there a standard, frozen, public RG API that can be used to programmatically install gems, query specs, etc? * Are there standard hooks other than the "defaults" files to make it possible to extend RubyGems with additional packaging systems, transport mechanisms, etc? We can probably start from here and see where it takes us. Thank you! - Charlie _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
