Erik, not sure what you're referring to... On Oct 13, 2011 12:28 PM, "Erik Hollensbe" <e...@hollensbe.org> wrote:
> > 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 > _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
