Re: pkg/48447: update pkgsrc/net/ruby-tw to 1.0.2 with required newgems

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48447; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/48447: update pkgsrc/net/ruby-tw to 1.0.2 with required
 newgems
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:37:56 +0000

 On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 06:45:00PM +0000, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
  >  >   >  It is abuse of devel/, "devel" is for "Development utilities".
  >  >  
  >  >  What else is "thread-safe collections and utilities"? Or memoization?
  >  
  >  What makes you think they are development utilities?
 
 The same as, e.g. boehm-gc and glib2 are development utilities and
 live in devel/; they are libraries of general-purpose code used for
 writing other program.s
 
  >  Rubygems explicitly define "Development Dependencies"
  >  and "Runtime Dependencies". Both gems are marked as
  >  "runtime dependencies" regardless of their names:
  >  https://rubygems.org/gems/twitter
  >  https://rubygems.org/gems/memoizable
 
 Given that Ruby is a dynamic language, and also that these
 dependencies are a property of the code using the gem and not the gem
 itself, I don't see how this means much; and even if it did mean
 something I don't think it's relevant.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost