[Rubygems-developers] Nice article on Apple's site...

[Richard Kilmer]

There is a marketing line which says "even bad press is good press" because
it gets people to hear/see you.  Regardless of our less than favorable view
of CPAN, lots of folks use it.

I am working on a graphical user interface for Win32 for RubyGems, then will
be working on an OS X native interface for it.  In both cases, the GUI will
not replace the command line interface, but be targeted at a very different
crowd...the 'GUI makes it real' crowd.  I am not one of that crowd, but if
it gets folks into using Ruby and the libraries written for Ruby, then its
way worth it.

Oh, and 'CPAN-like' is how the author of that article chose to characterize
RubyGems.  I don't know who wrote the article, or what their experience is
with Ruby, but again, its really no big deal to me.  If I got upset every
time someone mischaracterized something I created, I would be a very
depressed person.

Random thoughts back at ya! :-)

-rich


On 9/8/04 2:13 PM, "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:43:35PM -0400, Richard Kilmer wrote:
>> re: cross-platform development w/ OS X...
>> 
>> Read the section on 'Ruby Modules'...about half way down...see the RubyGems
>> mention?
> 
> Don't you take offense at the description as a "project [..] to
> bring CPAN-like functionality to Ruby?"  ;-)
> 
> Seriously, CPAN.pm is less than impressive, and the two really good
> things about CPAN seem to be
>  * size
>  * namespace management
> 
> RubyGems isn't about the second, so are the automated install and the
> desire to have lots of gems enough to be qualified (somewhat discreditably
> IMHO ;-) as "CPAN-like"?
> 
> just some random thoughts