How well does RubyGems play with other packaging systems?
It’d be nice to package code as a Gem, and then have it easily portable to many packaging systems (e.g. manual, RubyGems, dpkg/apt-get and other distro specific packaging). A quick glance at RubyGems suggests that installation of a package as a Gem requires all of its dependencies to be gems also (due to require_gem). Thoughts on this? It would not be too difficult to create a convertor to auto-generate dpkg or rpm files out of gems. It has been on the TODO list since day 1, but it hasn’t yet made it to the top of anyone’s priority list. Anyone who would like to do this for one or more packaging systems is more than welcome! From Eivind Eklund: I believe this is undoable inside the required structures for most other packaging systems (based on the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard). FreeBSD and Debian at least requires following a structure that is different from and not compatible with one directory per gem. I believe the same requirements exists for other package repositories (Fedora, Ne
