Ok, we need to figure out a solution here :) Here's the deal:
JRuby users are using JVM libraries. That's obviously a big selling point of JRuby. They're also living in the Ruby world, and use RubyGems, Bundler, etc. They don't want to have to manage dependencies multiple ways. Ruby world revolves around RubyGems and Bundler. Java world revolves around Maven. We want to integrate the two for JRuby users in a way that RubyGems, RubyGems.org, and Bundler folks can accept. JRuby currently supports installing jars from Maven at the "gem" command line, but that's the only place it works. RubyGems.org does not allow us to push gems with maven dependencies, and Bundler does not recognize maven dependencies. What we need: * A way for RubyGems to understand Maven artifacts and dependency graphs and fetch them. We have that at the command line, but it's via our own patches. * A way for RubyGems.org to allow gems that have Maven dependencies. The alternatives to this are pushing gems that *just* wrap a jar file (some of them very large) or hosting a JRuby-specific RubyGems.org. I don't like either of those options. * A way for Bundler to recognize Maven dependencies as though they are gems. I'm looking for thoughts and suggestions on how we can make this easier. It's one of the biggest headaches for JRuby users right now, since they have to use multiple mechanisms to track dependencies. I also don't want to flood RubyGems.org with a bunch of giant jar-only gems when we can simply source them from Maven mirrors. So...what do you think? - Charlie _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
