As a heads up, some folks in the .NET community started http://nuget.org/first by going with rubygems as a delivery mechanism.
http://dannydouglass.com/2010/08/whats-new-in-the-dotnet-world/ http://dannydouglass.com/2010/10/nupack-vs-nuproj-vs-openwrap/ On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote: > On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > > I love rubygems, I think it's the best packaging system out there. I've > been > > spoiled by it throughout my 5 years of working with Ruby. > > > > I was wondering if it could be extended / modified to serve packages for > > other languages. Let's say I develop a new language X, and start creating > > new libs. Instead of creating a new packaging system, I'd like to adapt > > RubyGems to work with it. Doesn't matter if ruby is needed. > > Since RubyGems is written in Ruby using it for another programming language > seems a little odd. Requiring Ruby to install packages for other languages > seems odd. > > > I know that ultimately it would be possible, I just don't know how hard > > would it be and if other people already though about that. Perhaps > someone > > is already doing something similar out there :) > > As far as I know, nobody has ported RubyGems or its packages to another > language. It's certainly possible to port RubyGems to another language, but > it would probably be better to steal the ideas of RubyGems instead. > > A .gem is a tar file containing a chunk of gzipped metadata and a gzipped > tar file with the contents. The tar format is easy to implement in ruby and > libz bindings can be found most anywhere. > > If I were writing RubyGems from scratch I wouldn't make the specification > behave the same way. In particular, it's too easy for people building > packages to touch things they're not supposed to like specification_version. > > Also, RubyGems' commands were built then API was extracted from the > commands long after. I would aggressively refactor API out of the commands > as they were being built. > _______________________________________________ > Rubygems-developers mailing list > http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems > Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
