[Bio-packaging] Ruby support in GNU Guix

[Pjotr Prins]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 02:06:13PM -0400, David Thompson wrote:
> Your patch looks good.  You should send it on over to guix-devel at gnu.org
> for good measure and I'll apply it.

Will do.

> Now, we need something like 'package-with-python2'.  I think it should
> be a procedure that accepts a ruby package and a gem package.  It will
> replace the version of ruby used to build each gem in the dependency
> tree.  For efficiency, the procedure will be memoized to avoid a lot of
> duplicated work.

Sounds good to me.

> If I may change the subject slightly, I'm curious about your work on
> Nokogiri.  I haven't yet figured out how to build a gem that has the
> native extensions packed within.  We must avoid the normal rubygem
> method of building the native extensions upon installation.  Do you know
> how to do this?

Not yet :)

Pj.