ruby-hamster now packaged for Debian / request: please add license to gem file

[hzulla]

Hi there,

ruby-hamster is being used by Sonic Pi to teach coding to kids. In an effort to bring Sonic Pi to Debian, the hamster gem has now been packaged: ruby-hamster at Debian.

While packaging, one issue turned up - what is the correct license for this gem, since there is no license file in the gem download package?

For unknown reasons, the license file is present in the github repo, but not in the gem file. To make packaging and distribution easier, please consider adding the license file to the gem download. Thanks!

[alexdowad]

@hzulla Thanks for your interest in Hamster. I have adjusted the gemspec to include the license file in the gem.

@krainboltgreene New minor version?

[krainboltgreene]

👍

[alexdowad]

@krainboltgreene There is a funny build failure whereby Travis CI can't install the Hamster gem on certain Ruby versions. I am looking at it.

[krainboltgreene]

Weeeeeee. Thanks for checking on it.

[alexdowad]

Looks like Travis CI is using an old version of Bundler. From their output:

$ bundle --version
Bundler version 1.8.4

On my PC:

21:42 ~prog/Ruby/parser % rbenv shell 2.3.0
21:42 ~prog/Ruby/parser % bundle --version
Bundler version 1.11.2

In this thread, one of the Bundler devs stated that he thinks this bug should be fixed by a commit which made it into v1.11.2.

[hzulla]

Thanks!

A new release would be helpful, as the current version 2.0.0 doesn't work with ruby-concurrent 1.0.0 and needed to be patched for Debian.

[alexdowad]

@hzulla Why not just submit a PR rather than patching the code downstream?

[hzulla]

@alexdowad the patch for Debian was taken from your current development version.

@Ch4s3 patched this already here. You just didn't do a release of the gem since then.

[alexdowad]

@krainboltgreene Can you go ahead and cut a new minor release? It looks like the Travis CI failure is a problem on their side.

[hzulla]

So, new release coming?

[alexdowad]

@krainboltgreene New gem please!

[krainboltgreene]

Out!

[krainboltgreene]

@alexdowad It was a major release, actually, since we changed the behavior of values_at.

[Ch4s3]

Awesome! @hzulla I'm excited to see that the new version is used on Sonic Pi!

[samaaron]

Hamster is wicked. Thanks so much for creating it. Immutability is such an important thing!