[DRE-maint] RFC: Ruby1.8, 1.9 and Rubygems

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 01/06/08 at 13:03 +1000, James Healy wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > We (Akira, Daigo, I) had an email discussion about to best package
> > Rubygems (the software, not the gems packages). Now that Ruby1.9
> > includes Rubygems, we have a problem, because that meant that we have to
> > maintain two seperate rubygems versions (one for ruby1.8, in the
> > rubygems source package, using the version on www.rubygems.org, and one
> > for ruby1.9, in the ruby1.9 source package).
> 
> This makes sense to me. Having 2 rubygems source packages is quite
> messy, and seems to be asking for bugs to be fixed in one and not the
> other.
> 
> I haven't compared the version of gems distributed with 1.9 to the
> vanilla one. Are they exactly the same?

No, the 1.9 version is outdated.
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