> >> # 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
> > rubyforge+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.
>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.
Most of the projects (especially in raa) are librariries. Is it possible to
autogen libraries?
Chad
kind regards -botp
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