On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 00:08, _why <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I'm trying to ease the RubyGems pain. This may seem like a > lot of work just to get these gems working... I don't know, it's a > weird thing. > > The issues are like: > > * RubyGems doesn't have a GUI. > * Shoes users shouldn't be expected to use the commandline. > (So, no `gem install twitter`.) > * Shoes users shouldn't need admin rights to use a lib. > * Shoes needs to include SQLite3, for the image cache. > * And I like having Hpricot and JSON. > > So, Shoes adds a GUI showing installation. Which is finally working > on more platforms. > > Rather than `gem install twitter`, we use `Shoes.setup`. That works > fine, also. (When not interfered by hpricot and sqlite3 probs.) > > Gems install to ~/.shoes. That solves admin problems. > > The last problems have been the ones bothering most people. Since > sqlite3 and hpricot weren't being installed as gems, they were being > ignored during installation and upgrades. Many conflicts. > > So, I'm now installing sqlite3 and hpricot as gems. You can look in > Shoes' ruby/gems/1.8/gems folder after building it. Other gems > still go to ~/.shoes, but gems bundled with the distro go in that > folder. > > I'm going to work on getting you builds. This is the last change > of Raisins. > > _why >
Great stuff _why! Thanks for the great framework that keeps getting better :) -- Jason Porter Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue. PGP key id: 926CCFF5 PGP fingerprint: 64C2 C078 13A9 5B23 7738 F7E5 1046 C39B 926C CFF5 PGP key available at: keyserver.net, pgp.mit.edu
