[DRE-maint] Minutes meeting 2007/09/17

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 11/10/07 at 15:09 +0900, Daigo Moriwaki wrote:
> > ** RubyGems
> > >
> > > The question is raised whether we have to change our position towards
> > > RubyGems.  A long discussions follows which describes our disagreements
> > > with the Ruby(Gem) community.  The conclusion is that we can keep our
> > > position statement as is.  More discussion can follow on the list
> > > later.
> 
> The upstream, Matz, is deciding that RubyGems will be included in Ruby 1.9
> coming this Christmas. Regardless of our liking, we must accept it.

Do you have a recent source for that? The only source I could find about
ruby 1.9 being released next christmas is
http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/rubyKaigi2006.html (report from
a conference in 2006).

I checked recently, and some libs from stdlib were clearly not ready.
Like REXML, for example.

> The upstream, the Ruby core team, is now discussing a concrete way to integrate
> RubyGems to Ruby 1.9. drbrain, a Rubygems developer, seems to have been
> requested some features by Matz and to be about to move the current Rubygems
> codes into the Ruby's trunk.

I haven't checked rubygems recently, but has there been changes in the
good direction?

> Japanese developers seem to be conservative to Rubygems (sympathetic with
> packaging like Debian), but others (English speakers) not. So, please watch out
> ruby-{core|talk} discussions.

any specific pointers?
If you read those mailing lists, it would be great if you could forward
links to interesting threads here.

> Also we may need to talk with Debian maintainers of Ruby. I think that after the
> Ruby 1.9 release, the current rubygems packages will go away and they will
> manage Rubygems.
 
Ack.
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