On 2018-11-20 10:00, Dan Kegel wrote: > Hey all, > looking at > http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86_64/setup.ini > I see that there is a ruby-json package: > @ ruby-json > sdesc: "Ruby JSON module" > ... > but ruby does not currently depend on ruby-json: > @ ruby > sdesc: "Interpreted object-oriented scripting language" > ... > depends2: cygwin, libcrypt0, libdb5.3, libffi6, libgcc1, libgdbm4, > libgmp10, libopenssl100, libreadline7, ruby-did_you_mean, ruby-psych, > ruby-rdoc, rubygems, zlib0 > ... > Maybe rubygems should, let's see: > @ rubygems > sdesc: "Ruby module management system" > ... > depends2: ca-certificates, ruby, ruby-builder, ruby-io-console, > ruby-minitest, ruby-psych, ruby-rake, ruby-rdoc > ... > I am not a cygwin developer, but it does kind of sound like the rubygems > package might want to depend on the packages required to provide the > 'default' gems from stdgems.org. > The right way to phrase that request would be as a patch :-) if a > cygwin ruby user who needs it has the time and energy to get into > cygwin development.
It's more a case of package.cygport tweaks by the ruby/library/-gems maintainer to define packages and dependencies to get all required packages installed. Dependencies are circular if gems depend on ruby, and ruby depends on the standard library gems: how that is handled in packaging must be decided by the maintainer, when they have time. It might require a bit of restructuring so that e.g. exes and libs are packaged as ruby-bin and ruby-lib, gems depend on bin and lib, and ruby only provides global files but depends on all the standard bits to get them installed. Like many developers I know enough about ruby to find and install packages I need to run the tools I *use* sometimes, and hack a bit, but little more; same for python, perl, .net, etc. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
