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Re:Rbenv 1.0.0 by otterley on Friday December 25, 2015 @05:09PM (#10792506)
Ruby developers haven't historically been as considerate to users as Perl, Python or Java developers; they don't strictly follow semantic versioning standards or preserve backward compatibility for dependents. So hacks like this and Bundler have been needed to preserve our sanity.
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Re:Rbenv 1.0.0 by nixpulvis on Friday December 25, 2015 @08:06PM (#10792877)
I wouldn't call Bundler a "hack". It's actually one of the best package managers around IMO.
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Re:Rbenv 1.0.0 by otterley on Friday December 25, 2015 @10:13PM (#10793131)
I don't disagree that it works well; I'm simply arguing that it solves a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first instance.
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Re:Rbenv 1.0.0 by davexunit on Friday December 25, 2015 @09:24PM (#10793040)
Bundler and the RubyGems community in general is amateur hour compared to projects with more discipline like GNU/Linux distributions.
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Re:Rbenv 1.0.0 by nixpulvis on Friday December 25, 2015 @10:04PM (#10793120)
It's a different type of community, and I was only making a point about how well designed Bundler and RubyGems are for the purpose they serve. It's very easy to share gems within the community.
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