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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. -- Luke Kanies http://madstop.com | http://reductivelabs.com | 615-594-8199
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