[BioRuby] biogem upgrade and simplification?

[Pjotr Prins]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:19:48AM +0200, Raoul Bonnal wrote:
> Hi Pjotr,
> 
> I agree that biogem needs to be simplified and certainly we should
> drop jeweler.  For long time Jeweler had some incompatibilities that
> we fixed manually using meta programming. The initial idea was to
> implement a lot of facilities for the users but maybe those are not
> needed anymore.
> 
> If you want to use a temple schema an option would be to have a
> github repository and write a “biogem” tool which is a simple tool
> that clones the repo and configure the templates accordingly.
> 
> Which is the current state of GUIX plus Ruby and its native
> libraries  ?  I would like to have a way to decides if I want to go
> with the traditional Gemfile or the GUIX version; maybe in the
> future we can switch to GUIX as the default packaging system.

We can have both easily.

> we can still use the biogem repo  on github, create a new branch and
> rewrite the whole code base, actually I do not like versions in the
> tools names.

Yes, good point.

Pj.
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