[katello-devel] Bundler vs rpm-gems

[Dmitri Dolguikh]

On 22/08/12 02:12 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:00:50PM +0100, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>>> A) Which version is the correct one? The one from Fedora 16? 17? Or
>>> RHEL6? I would like to have ability to generate the lock file somehow,
>>> so devs would be able to start Katello with various "environments".
>>> Sometimes you have Fedora only bug. Sometimes you introduce RHEL6 bug
>>> (because you develop only on Fedora).
>> i'd treat all platforms with the exception of latest fedora as
>> production-platforms (in a sense that they are running with w/e
>> system gems are available to them). In this case we can simply
>> ignore versions part of gem specification in Gemfile.
> You'd treat them as production platform. I see. But I ask: which
> gem versions would you use for developing on MacOS or Debian? And I
> answer: a random set instead of predictable one.
sorry, I only meant rpm platforms in that comment. We don't have much 
choice with non-rpm platforms: use bundler.

>
>>> B) How would folks update those lock files. I mean if you want to add
>>> new dependency, bundle install would bump all the versions there. Once
>>> we start to rely on the Gemfile.lock, we will see folks bumping versions
>>> randomly in the git.
>> Again, not an issue on deployment platforms. They either use rpms,
>> or Bundler.
> But the whole discussion is about development, not deployment. Folks
> will start committing Gemfile.lock changes as "bundle install" will be
> issued shortly. And we will have this out of control.
Which platforms are for development (among rpm-based ones)?
-d
>
> I wonder the simplest solution is to provide our own gem repos.
>