FUDCon:Milan 2011 - Ruby SIG meeting

[Shawn Starr]

On Thursday, September 22, 2011 07:48:01 PM Shawn Starr wrote:
> On Thursday, September 22, 2011 09:29:37 AM Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > Dne 21.9.2011 17:45, Mo Morsi napsal(a):
> > > On 09/21/2011 07:46 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > >> Dne 21.9.2011 13:43, Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
> > >>> * Support of gems for MRI and JRuby.
> > >>> 
> > >>>        - Is it possible to share RubyGems?
> > >>>        - Is it possible to share gems?
> > > 
> > > Its difficult since the gems themselves depend on the rubygems
> > > package
> > > which depends on MRI. Perhaps if we can break this dependency
> > > somehow
> > > this would be more feasible.
> > > 
> > > Just thought of a random idea, would the rubygems package be able to
> > > _not_ depend on a specific package, rather depend a
> > > 'ruby-interpreter'
> > > capability, which then would be provided by both the MRI and JRuby
> > > packages? Then MRI / JRuby could be swapped in / out and any gem
> > > that
> > > depends on a specific interpreter could have the MRI/JRuby
> > > dependency
> > > there instead having it in rubygems.
> > > 
> > > Granted this would make it more difficult to install both MRI and
> > > JRuby
> > > at the same time on the same system, though it may be feasible, just
> > > haven't thought this one through.
> > 
> > RubyGems has to be subpackage of Ruby, because they could be upgraded
> > later separately, if needed. I am big fan of moving RubyGems out of MRI
> > and use one RubyGems package for both MRI and JRuby and it is doable
> > IMO.
> > 
> > However I am not sure how to support gems which are bit different
> > between MRI and JRuby versions. Nokogiri would be one example. I am
> > still missing some support in RPM for this, something like:
> > 
> > Requires: nokogiri-mri if mri.installed
> > Requires: nokogiri-jruby if jruby.installed
> > 
> > Vit
> 
> With the shift to Ruby 1.9.x.. I am preparing to get the OpenNebula
> packaging effort underway. had meetings with developers, I'm drawing up a
> wiki.
> 
> Assuming all these rubygems I'm *about* to submit work with Ruby 1.9.x I
> strongly suggest a compat package...
> 
On top of that, if you're making changes. I have no choice but to wait til you 
settle down on your decisions. I can't package OpenNebula until this is done.

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