Did my patch get reverted? -Erik
On Oct 13, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Nick Quaranto wrote: > "dependency" is for "gem" dependency, let's keep it that way, please. There > is a "requirements" field in the gemspec that this could be used for > instead: > > http://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/#requirements > > However this is yet another reason to have metadata :( > > -Nick > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com >> wrote: > >> I ran into a snag trying to demo JRuby's support for installing Maven >> artifacts as gems: rubygems.org does not allow pushing gems with >> external dependencies. >> >> For the "cloby" gem, which exposes Clojure's STM and persistent list >> as Ruby instance variables, I wanted to have a dependency on Clojure >> directly from Maven, using JRuby's maven gem support. The gem name for >> that looks like "mvn:org.clojure:clojure". This worked well as a >> dependency in the gemspec, and local copies of the gem would also >> fetch Clojure from Maven Central. But I was not able to push the gem >> to rubygems.org. >> >> Inability to push gems that depend on Maven artifacts waters down that >> support considerably. It also means we would need to start pushing >> Maven libraries to Rubygems.org for every such library anyone depends >> on...which could mean hundreds of gems that only exist to wrap a JVM >> library. I know nobody wants that (and that's why we built this >> support into JRuby) so perhaps we can reach a compromise? >> >> - Charlie >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
