On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Evan Phoenix <e...@phx.io> wrote: > While thinking about the gem size and dependency naming issues last night, I > had a thought for a feature. > > What if the following were possible: > > gem push --custom-url http://phx.io/gems/gx-1.0.0.gem gx-1.0.0.gem > > This would, rather than uploading the gx gem to rubygems.org, it would upload > just the spec and set a "url" field that the user has specified. When the gem > is requested for download, we'd redirect to that custom url. >
The only problem I see with that is the usability issue: it will require manual (or automated) upload of the gem to the custom server. > Thoughts? Comments and Criticisms Required. In my experience with S3+CloudFront, costs increases not on storage but traffic. I have gigs of data stored on Amazon and pay pretty much nothing while on CloudFront is another thing. -- 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
