> Once that piece is behind us, we will package individual gems, into our . . . .
To clarify that comment - the idea is to pick a select set of libraries(gems) to petition the OpenSolaris ARC with. To maintain rubygems compatibility is of utmost important since we cannot possibly package all the gems available out there, and also to be upgrade-friendly. -ps Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > Brandorr wrote: > >> On 10/18/07, Thorleif Wiik <wiik at pixelpark.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> today, I received a request by a customer to migrate their application >>> stack from linux to Solaris 10 U4. >>> >>> The request looks like this: >>> >>> ruby >= 1.8.5 >>> rubygems >= 0.9.4 >>> mysql-ruby >= 2.7.3 >>> fastthread >= 1.0 >>> rspec >= 1.0.5 >>> log4r >= 1.0.5 >>> activerecord >= 1.15.3 >>> activesupport >= 1.4.2 >>> mongrel >= 1.0.1 >>> libgpg-error >= 1.5 >>> libgcrypt >= 1.2.4 >>> rake >= 0.7.3 >>> >>> >> Thorleif, >> >> Most, if not all, of these Ruby apps and libraries can be installed as >> Gems. Could you check with your client, and verify that "gem install >> rails" is what they are used to. (IE: rubygems will be included, but >> not every single common library). >> >> >> >> > > Thorleif, > > Thanks for the feedback. Like Brian mentioned, adding these gems is > easy for a Ruby user(we package rubygems). > > We're looking at the problem of installing gem libraries into Ruby such > that it is both Solaris packaging and rubygems compatible. > Once that piece is behind us, we will package individual gems, into our > Ruby packaging. > > fyi - I added your requirements to the feature requests list at > http://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/Ruby+On+Rails+Stack+for+OpenSolaris > > -ps > > > > >
