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diff --git a/TODO.rubygems b/TODO.rubygems index e7ca06d..60b6ca1 100644 --- a/TODO.rubygems +++ b/TODO.rubygems @@ -1,6 +1,22 @@ RubyGems-specific improvements for the Baserock Import tool ----------------------------------------------------------- +Not all Ruby applications are packaged as RubyGems. The tool should be able +to process any directory containing a Gemfile and calculate its dependency +graph from that, even if there is no .gemspec file. A little background: +initially I was looking for an approach that works for *all* Ruby projects, +and found that if I read the Gemfile of each project the overall dependency +graph would end up being enourmous, and circular. I switched to creating a +fake Gemfile that included only the .gemspec file of the specific project +being imported. This works well for dependencies, but I've realised that the +goal project (the thing you actually want to import) should probably be +treated differently. I envisage a solution where there is a new type of +importer, named 'ruby-bundler' or some such thing, which takes a repo URL +and reads dependencies from the Gemfile inside that repo. In the +.foreign-dependencies file for the package it can list all the dependencies +as 'rubygem' rather than 'ruby-bundler' dependencies, so that they are +processed as Gems (using the .gemspec rather than the Gemfile). + If you could pass a Git ref as GEM_VERSION it might be useful. Currently you can't do that. |