[Rubygems-developers] HEADSUP RubyGems 1.2 Real Soon Now

[Eric Hodel]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Jeremy Kemper wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net>  
> wrote:
>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 00:33 AM, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>>> At 6:22 PM -0700 6/3/08, Jeremy Kemper wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe RubyGems is currently feature-complete for the next  
>>>>> release.
>>>>> For
>>>>> the next while I'll be focusing on bugfixes and patches from the
>>>>> tracker.  I
>>>>> expect to release a new version in two weeks at minimum, possibly
>>>>> longer.
>>>>
>>>> I'd love to see little-known --format-executable enabled by default
>>>> for gem installs.
>>>
>>> I would like the opposite to be the default.
>>
>> I would love to make --format-executable the default, but that will  
>> cause
>> too much confusion and will inconvenience the majority too much.   
>> (Maybe I
>> shouldn't have made it default for setup.rb/gem update --system,  
>> but the two
>> new rubygems/defaults files may help improve that situation.)
>
> The naming changes only when that person has changed his ruby's naming
> also, so it feels natural.
>
> The majority have a vanilla ruby so they'll see no change or  
> confusion.

apt-packaged ruby installs as ruby1.8, FreeBSD ports ruby installs as  
ruby18, and both provide a link from ruby to the correct name.  From  
the setup.rb change, I believe a majority of the other packaging  
systems install ruby this way.  Not as many people build ruby by hand.

If you want to make --format-executable the default for you, ~/.gemrc  
allows you to make it so.