[DRE-maint] Minutes meeting 2007/09/17

[Daigo Moriwaki]

> ** RubyGems
> >
> > The question is raised whether we have to change our position towards
> > RubyGems.  A long discussions follows which describes our disagreements
> > with the Ruby(Gem) community.  The conclusion is that we can keep our
> > position statement as is.  More discussion can follow on the list
> > later.

The upstream, Matz, is deciding that RubyGems will be included in Ruby 1.9
coming this Christmas. Regardless of our liking, we must accept it.

The upstream, the Ruby core team, is now discussing a concrete way to integrate
RubyGems to Ruby 1.9. drbrain, a Rubygems developer, seems to have been
requested some features by Matz and to be about to move the current Rubygems
codes into the Ruby's trunk.

Japanese developers seem to be conservative to Rubygems (sympathetic with
packaging like Debian), but others (English speakers) not. So, please watch out
ruby-{core|talk} discussions.

Also we may need to talk with Debian maintainers of Ruby. I think that after the
Ruby 1.9 release, the current rubygems packages will go away and they will
manage Rubygems.

Regards,
Daigo

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Daigo Moriwaki
beatles at sgtpepper dot net