Provoke: Discussion on idea of bundler merging into rubygems

[Kendall Gifford]

So, I've had this thought several times before, "wouldn't it be convenient if all of bundler's functionality was just part of rubygems?"

I've even talked to a few of you that I know about this (at the stgeorge.rb meeting and at other times). I even finally blogged the idea, putting "out there" for anyone to criticize:

http://chienpo.blogspot.com/2012/05/bundle-of-gems.html

So, my blog entry above sums up my thoughts and is quite brief (there's not to much to say to at least propose the idea).

I'm just wondering if anyone else has already suggested this, blogged about the idea, or discussed it? Or, have you had any similar thoughts at any time? Or am I just the lone oddball in the corner?

What are the pros and cons? I briefly mention the con of increased size and complexity of rubygems if bundler were mixed in. I also should've mentioned the pro of having the cool features of bundler distributed with ruby (as rubygems is currently with ruby >= 1.9). Oh the convenience. Or, oh the deplorable increase in code size and I don't personally even use bundler.

Anyhow, I just wanted to get some info and thoughts from my fellow Utah rubyists before, heaven forbid, putting any effort into anything.

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Kendall Gifford
zett...@gmail.com

[Mike Moore]

On May 17, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Kendall Gifford <zett...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm just wondering if anyone else has already suggested this, blogged about the idea, or discussed it?

AFAIK a portion of the Bundler functionality is being added to
RubyGems for 2.0. They are actively working on this now. I'd hop into
the #rubygems irc channel and chat with them about this.

[Ben Mabey]

> the #rubygems irc channel and chat with them about it.

Yeah, that was my understanding as well. I believe some functionality will be kept separate (such as the git support) and that it will live as a gem plugin.