Submit ruby package to Gallery about chocolatey-packages

[ferventcoder]

Sure thing.

[ferventcoder]

Looks like I'll need to revert your changes again :(

[ferventcoder]

Ruby maintains multiple versions at the same time. That's why there were some commented lines in the ruby package.

[ferventcoder]

1.8 is EOLed, it can be removed, but 1.9.3 doesn't EOL until February.

[TomOne]

Sorry, but I think this approach of providing multiple branches of a software in one package is not optimal. I already expressed this some time ago.

It doesn’t handle updates correctly. What if one has installed ruby 2.1.3 and 1.9.2? Then the package would only update to 2.1.5, but not to 1.9.3. Then an user would have to update manually the older ruby version, which is kind of against the idea of a package manager.

Just look at the package managers in the Linux world. They have different packages for different branches of ruby version, which is a much better approach and gives more flexibility and security.

• https://packages.debian.org/sid/ruby1.9
• https://packages.debian.org/sid/ruby2.0
• https://packages.debian.org/sid/ruby2.1

By the way, there’s already a ruby1.9 package on Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/ruby1.9, so maintaining the 1.9 branch in this package would be a duplicate.

[TomOne]

I thought Chocolatey is kind of apt-get, but for Windows. So why not adopt the approaches used there? 😃

[ferventcoder]

We are making changes to get there. Do you understand how to transition?

On Monday, December 22, 2014, TomOne [email protected] wrote:

I thought Chocolatey is kind of apt-get, but for Windows. So why not adopt
the approaches used there? [image: 😃]

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