[Nix-dev] Re: Ruby-gems

[Michael Raskin]

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Bárður Árantsson wrote:
|>> My problem is that I want to provide Ruby to biologists, and can not
|>> support all GEMs they will think of.
|>
|> I still think that a wrapper that is a combination of Ruby plus all the
|> gems you need for a certain package would be sufficient. Maybe we should
|> just sit together for a few hours to just see if we can get it fixed
|> without too much effort.
|
| The problem with executable wrappers is that the don't scale: You need a
| wrapper for every conceivable combination of GEMs/Eggs/whatever... which
| is impractical.

Well, you never need to have all wrappers created at once. You generally
have no more than one per environment generated automatically, and that
results in some sane amount of wrappers. Maybe add a few that are used
internally in some builds.
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