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

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