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by steveklabnik
4119 days ago
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I may or may not have threatened to do this after having had one too many drinks, but when I sobered up, I... sobered up. ;) While I love a good 'burn the world down re-write,' it's a _lot_ of work and isn't guaranteed to succeed. It's been tried before, and in other languages too: check out wheels in Python. That said, Rubygems did replace what came before it, and Gemcutter replaced what came before it... so it could be done. It's just non-trivial. |
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Same here, still have my napkin notes. It's actually one of my bucket list projects, if there wasn't the dreadful food-on-table constraint...
check out wheels in Python.
Valid point. Python is indeed a good example for an even worse situation. In fairness, most languages are still worse off than Ruby even now. I wouldn't trade maven, CPAN, etc. for bundler with all its warts.
However, there's also languages pulling ahead. npm seems to be slowly getting there (after a rough start) and the Go experience (godep), while still in flux and not directly comparable, is also something to draw lessons from.