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On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 20:12 -0600, Luke Kanies wrote: > I currently spend all my time in Ruby, but I fortunately don't have > to deal much with RubyGems. I say fortunately, because, like all > software, it's hate-worthy. I personally think it's a bit more hate- > worthy than it should be, and here's an example. > > Some people run released versions of my software. Some people use > the software directly from Subversion. It's important to know which > they're using when they're filing bugs, so I want some way to > differentiate them. So, reasonably, I add 'svn' on to my version > number. > > *I* don't mind. Ruby doesn't mind. But oh now, RubyGems declares > that I cannot have a version number that looks like that: > > Malformed version number string 0.20.0-svn > > Yeah, thanks. > > This means I can't even use my Rakefile for anything, because it > can't even create the gem task (which it always does, even if it > won't be executing it). Stupid gems. So I've not even attempted to do any ruby programming. But I have done endless amounts of programming in a dozen other languages. That post was meaningless gibberish to me. I find it difficult to believe that ruby has come up with such completely new concepts that no-one else has ever even thought of that it needs to invent its own natural language extensions just to talk about them. Hates-mindless-software-obfuscation. Martin.
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