Re: RubyGems deciding version formats

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From: Stephen Deken
Subject: Re: RubyGems deciding version formats
Date: 15:21 on 10 Nov 2006

On 11/10/06, Sean O'Rourke <sorourke@xx.xxxx.xxx> wrote:
> And end up further into the other Great Ruby Hate of giving
> programs "clever" names you'll never guess?  Does the library
> dealing with X have X in its name, or is it named something
> "cute" and impossible to find, like "sediment" or "ant"?

To be fair, Ruby didn't start this.  Java did the same thing with
JavaBeans, albeit with a lesser degree of hate.  At least `jar` wasn't
named `coffeecan`.

But I agree -- I don't see what would have been so bad about
`ruby-pkg` or `ruby-build`.

--sjd;

There's stuff above here

Stephen Deken 14:54 on 10 Nov 2006
- Stephen Deken 15:21 on 10 Nov 2006
  - David Cantrell 15:32 on 10 Nov 2006
    - too deep to show
- Jarkko Hietaniemi 14:52 on 11 Nov 2006
  - A. Pagaltzis 20:24 on 11 Nov 2006
peter (Peter da Silva) 15:45 on 10 Nov 2006

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