[Nix-dev] Re: rubyLibs rewrite

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Marc Weber wrote:

> Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Fri Jan 21 09:31:57 +0100
> 2011:
>> I've just committed a big change to rubyLibs. The main change is that a
>> patch generating nix code moved to 'nix' gem.
> You know that I abandoned that code. So my ruby patch will just remove
> all changes and use the overlay.
I'm going to add 'nix-dump' command inspired by your new patch to 'nix' gem 
and let user choose between two variants. I just wanted to commit it as soon 
as it is usable.

>> For example, we can let rubygems to automatically add
>> NIX_PROFILES/gemPath to GEM_PATH.
> Yes. However it should be done on a "per application basis" by default.
> I personally will load gems into PATH when needed. This way no
> collisions will happen.
What collisions may happen with rubygems? It seems that they have rather 
nice builtin collision resolution.
> 
> I'm fine with the change. If I dislike it for some reason I'll patch
> Nixos myself. So go for it.
> 
> Marc Weber