On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:56:22PM +0200, Jonathan Weiss wrote: > I'm working on some Ruby ports. One of them (rubygems) is a package > management for ruby libraries and applications (similar to Perl/CPAN or > PHP/Pear).
Good idea... i've done something similar in the past, but had no time to integrate it cleanly. My way was to create the ports so they fetched the gem-package and installed it locally so i could generate the plist. > Apart from these problems I want to integrate rubygems with the ports tree > like done for pear or p5. This means that I want to be able to install gem > through doing: > > # cd /usr/ports/devel/gem-rake && make install clean-depends > > Or just add the package. I already have some code for this that wraps around > `gem install` like done for php pear. Is this wanted or should I stop > wasting my time? Please go on and send patches :-) I'll try to find the right machine to contribute my own stuff... Regards, Simon