I wrote a patch a while back that handles metadata. I'm not sure what's become of it.
-Erik On Oct 13, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Nick Quaranto wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
