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Abandoning Rubygems
12 hours ago
- Vagrant 1.1+ no longer supports installation via RubyGems; pre-made packages or installers are now required.
- The main reasons for abandoning RubyGems include: non-Rubyists find the dependency on Ruby and RubyGems a high barrier to entry.
- Bugs often arose from users having incompatible or broken dependencies, leading to instability perceptions in Vagrant itself.
- Installers allow Vagrant to bundle all dependencies (including Ruby, OpenSSL, etc.), ensuring a consistent and reliable environment.
- With controlled dependencies, Vagrant can replace core libraries (e.g., libarchive, cURL, SSH) to improve performance and stability without user involvement.
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12 hours ago
- Traditional open source software follows a fixed development cycle with stable and unstable branches, where bugs are fixed before a release.
- AI coding changes both software development and usage, as users can now ask AI to modify software directly.
- Code repositories should serve as templates or examples for solving problems, allowing users to adapt code for specific needs.
- Unstable or unproven code can be valuable for certain users, like those needing memory-saving features in Redis.
- Projects like DwarfStar show that code bases can guide AI agents to implement features automatically for new models or hardware.
- Multiple experimental branches are now an integral part of projects, enabling community testing and refinement before merging.
- Documentation must be not only human-readable but also understandable by coding agents to facilitate software modification.
Not just development, distribution of software may change as well
5 days ago
- Traditional software development involves a stable branch and an unstable branch, with a freeze and testing period before release.
- AI coding changes both development and usage, enabling users to modify software with AI agents and making code more malleable.
- Repositories can serve as templates for users to specialize, rather than just finished products, allowing adaptation to specific needs.
- Projects like DwarfStar benefit from providing solid examples that coding agents can extrapolate to new configurations and models.
- Documentation should be written for both humans and coding agents to facilitate understanding and modification of the system.
- The release process may become more fluid, with many experimental branches as integral parts of the project.

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Abandoning Rubygems

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Not just development, distribution of software may change as well