Giving up on Ruby packaging

Re:Giving up on Ruby packaging by Corrado on Sunday January 02, 2011 @10:06AM (#2060109)

I really hate to see Lucas burn out and I think the Ruby & Debian communities will both be negatively affected. I'm a Debian Ruby user whose contributed a tiny bit (first Redmine package) and I have watched Lucas and the rest of the team repeatedly bang their heads into a wall when trying to get agreement on something from either side.

My personal view is that the Ruby/GEM packages should be laid out like the Perl/CPAN, which seems to be doing just fine.

If you want to help, go to the Debian Ruby Team page (http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby) and join us (http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/RubyExtras/JoiningTheTeam).

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Re:Giving up on Ruby packaging by telemachos on Sunday January 02, 2011 @01:14PM (#2060588)

> My personal view is that the Ruby/GEM packages should be laid out like the Perl/CPAN, which seems to be doing just fine.

Could you say a bit more about what this would look like and how Debian's treatment of Perl differs from how it handles Ruby?

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Re:Giving up on Ruby packaging by runjake on Sunday January 02, 2011 @01:37PM (#2060643)

I love Perl, and I'm a Perl god. But CPAN is a plague unto it. If any piece of software should be called a ghetto, CPAN is it.

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Re:Giving up on Ruby packaging by telemachos on Sunday January 02, 2011 @01:45PM (#2060675)

I like cpanm[1] quite a lot. Have you tried it as an alternative installer for modules? (I'm no Perl god, but I still maintain a healthy chunk of Perl code I wrote for sysadmin things a few years ago. I find that cpanm does exactly what I need it to, without the overhead of CPAN.)

[1] https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus

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Re:Giving up on Ruby packaging by sigzero on Sunday January 02, 2011 @02:29PM (#2060772)

I love Perl too. I couldn't disagree more. I love the CPAN and I have had no trouble with it at all.

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