Gem resolved back - was RE: Gem 0.4 segfaults on winxp upon i nsta ll)

# Btw, are all rubyforge projects have corr gem format now?

I'm not sure I understand the question. Could you explain?

I'm sorry. I misunderstood your recent announcement regarding the
rubyforge+gem integration. I see now that one has to create his own gem and
post it on rubyforge.

I was thinking along the line of posting ones project on rubyforge AND
rubyforge will do the gem generation for it. Is that possible? (isn't the
gemspec actually a ruby program? -sorry for stupid question, this is just my
first dive into gem).

Thanks
Chad

kind regards -botp

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Chad Fowler [mailto:chad@chadfowler.com] wrote:

The gemspec _is_ a Ruby program, but it's more like data than a
program. Thankfully in Ruby, data is usually best expressed as a
program, availing you of all its sweet goodness. But I digress...

Gemspecs need to be written by a person. [1] End of story.

Cheers,
Gavin

[1] In fact, they can easily be written by Rake, but a person needs to
write the Rakefile.

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On Saturday, June 5, 2004, 12:37:22 PM, Botp wrote:

Chad Fowler [mailto:chad@chadfowler.com] wrote:

# Btw, are all rubyforge projects have corr gem format now?

I'm not sure I understand the question. Could you explain?

I'm sorry. I misunderstood your recent announcement regarding the
rubyforge+gem integration. I see now that one has to create his own gem and
post it on rubyforge.

I was thinking along the line of posting ones project on rubyforge AND
rubyforge will do the gem generation for it. Is that possible? (isn't the
gemspec actually a ruby program? -sorry for stupid question, this is just my
first dive into gem).

Though, given a set of conventions, it would be pretty easy to
auto-generate Gem files. Of course, given a ubiquitous set of
conventions, we wouldn't see a need to do RubyGems at all. :slight_smile:

Chad

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On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 21:49:26 +0900, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:

On Saturday, June 5, 2004, 12:37:22 PM, Botp wrote:

> Chad Fowler [mailto:chad@chadfowler.com] wrote:
>>
>> # Btw, are all rubyforge projects have corr gem format now?
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand the question. Could you explain?

> I'm sorry. I misunderstood your recent announcement regarding the
> rubyforge+gem integration. I see now that one has to create his own gem and
> post it on rubyforge.

> I was thinking along the line of posting ones project on rubyforge AND
> rubyforge will do the gem generation for it. Is that possible? (isn't the
> gemspec actually a ruby program? -sorry for stupid question, this is just my
> first dive into gem).

The gemspec _is_ a Ruby program, but it's more like data than a
program. Thankfully in Ruby, data is usually best expressed as a
program, availing you of all its sweet goodness. But I digress...

Gemspecs need to be written by a person. [1] End of story.