ruby_select plan, rubygem: dependency operator

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 14, 2009, at 18:41, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> What would be nice is some automatic wrapper for all the various  
> extensions
> to languages (ruby, perl, python, etc) where you just say "I need  
> xyz from
> CPAN/gem" and port can handle it, and hence use it for  
> dependencies.  Of course,
> base has no support for such hence the need to wrap such things in  
> full-blown
> ports, otherwise how do we know what is installed and and what  
> version?  It
> would still run the install through the proper tool, but also keep  
> track of
> what is installed so it can be managed (and easily upgraded,  
> activated,
> etc), but wouldn't need to be a complete port.  Instead it could be  
> some
> form of listing in a table someplace, for any extensions which are  
> easily
> installed.

In lieu of this, a tool to mostly-automatically convert from those  
package managers to a MacPorts port is useful, c.f. cpan2port for  
converting CPAN perl modules to Portfiles.