On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com> wrote: > > We want the external libraries to be fully functional gems. JRuby > already supports installing them like this (I know colons are bad, > we'll figure out something else): > > gem install mvn:org.clojure:clojure >
So what you're suggesting, even you stated differently is that you want to pollute rubygems.org with maven artifacts wrapped as gems? > > I don't understand why we can't just push gems that have maven > dependencies. Because they depend on Java libs, they only work on > JRuby anyway. Because they're used on JRuby, the maven dependencies > will resolve at install time. > Simply because a maven dependency is not Ruby nor a RubyGem? >> >> $ gem spec --local pkg/testext-0.0.1.gem >> >> requirements: >> - maven:org.something.foo.whatever >> - maven:junit.junit-4.10 >> rubyforge_project: >> >> That would work? > > I don't see that it works better than us just installing them as gems. > The issue I have is that by having it as a separate post-install hook, > every tool that uses RubyGems or Bundler to pull in dependencies has > to be modified to also know how to fetch those libraries and include > them. If they're just gems, the normal logic just works... > As long those tools use gem command line or Gem::Installer, those hooks will be fired up automatically. I have the feeling that no matter what solution we can come up with will never be enough to you. I hint that you want rubygems.org understand and host your maven dependencies. What I suggested is a way that you can add a maven-logic layer to RubyGems and be able to install those dependencies for the user, but seems clearly discarded by you. What you really want is be able to manage maven as gems from "gem" command, something that I believe goes beyond the scope of RubyGems (or Ruby) and that solves the needs of one single Ruby implementation: jRuby. Perhaps you need a way to plugin and extend Gem::Installer to fulfill jRuby needs. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
