[Rubygems-developers] Post-install scripts etc  Eivind Eklund
eivind at FreeBSD.org Fri Oct 1 16:44:07 EDT 2004          There
are things developers want to do to finish setup that
RubyGems do not support,  A number of these things vary from
system to system, and they can be implemented correctly and
incorrectly on other levels.  "Perfect" solution:
Provide all the helpers the developers need to do the tasks,
available as "extra specification" for the package (so any form
of common task is implemented once and done right).  And this
should be trivial to learn for the developer.  More details:
We need to somehow provide support for these helpers.  The
problem is there is a bunch of people around the world that will
develop the applications, and that we have too little experience
to really know what helpers they'll need.  And lacking
coordination and tracking of the helpers, we'd get a ton of
broken helpers (not working on various systems etc).
I'm already seeing people forcing gems to work as binary
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