Re: Giving up on RubyGems

Hi Pjotr, This cheered me up! On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Hi Dave, > > You know I am not so much interested in fixing upstream concepts which > appear to be mixed up (indeed). I think you are heroic for trying to > discuss this with the

Giving up on RubyGems

Hello Guix hackers, As some of you know, I've been working on Ruby support for Guix for about a year now. In that time, I helped write and rewrite a Ruby gem build system, wrote an importer for , and packaged many Ruby gems. At various points, I've had my doubts about the

Re: Giving up on RubyGems

You got a lot further than I did. I gave up when ruby refused to run if $HOME did not match the entry in /etc/passwd The Ruby maintainers insisted that my environment was "broken" if HOME was ever set to anything else. :( On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 08:51:22AM -0400, David Thompson wrote:

Re: Giving up on RubyGems

David Thompson writes: > Hello Guix hackers, > > As some of you know, I've been working on Ruby support for Guix for > about a year now. In that time, I helped write and rewrite a Ruby gem > build system, wrote an importer for , and packaged >

Re: Giving up on RubyGems

Hi! I think letting the dust settle down cannot hurt–and you have awesome projects in the pipeline, like container support! ;-) >From an outsider’s perspective, it may be that the outcome is that we’ll have to act on a case-by-case basis: using gems when they actually contain source, and