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From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?
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On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, Andreas Ericsson =C2=A0wrote:
>>> 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 acros=
s
>> 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.