From: Jon Seymour Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:59:56 GMT Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Jon Seymour wrote: >> On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, Andreas Ericsson  wrote: >>> Horrible idea. There are already as many package managers as there >>> are packages without us throwing another one into the mix. >> >> I agree that there are too many package managers. But do you know >> what? There isn't a single package manager that reliably works across >> platform. apt-get? great. Except you need something else for Mac, >> cywgin, or, um Fedora. Brew? Fine then you only need to worry about >> Linux and cygwin. Cygwin? ... > > gem works on all of them :) > Ah. but you have just made things harder for yourself. Assuming you use two words to install ruby, one as a command separator, you need to deploy gitwork with just one word. That said, I have heard that ruby is a _very_ concise language :-) jon.