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    Edward,

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 08:29:05AM -0800, Edward Hennessy wrote:
> Gabriel,
> 
> Thank you for the info.


You're welcome.

> 
> > On Jan 27, 2015, at 6:59 AM, Gabriel Paubert <paubert AT iram DOT es> wrote:
> > 
> > I was also on a frequencly updated Debian testing machine. On another
> > machine I had Debian stable but ruby-gtk3 is not available, so it's
> > hopeless. 
> 
> There is an alternate way to retrieve Ruby gems that I need to look into. Both gem and bundler can obtain and install gems.
> 
> > The version of gio2 is 2.2.0-5+b2 in Debian numbering. 
> > 
> > However the changes between 2.1 and 2.2 from the git repository for
> > ruby-gio2 are extremely large, so it's not surprising. Most of
> > the C code has disappeared and many bindings seem to be automatically
> > generated through black magic, I mean gobject-introspection.
> 
> I've checked in a potential fix to the repository. The fix abandons using Gio in favor of Ruby core library.
> 

Good idea, I think that the Ruby core is less likely to suffer
incompatible changes.

> > Besides that, I think that this package generator is a very good initiative,
> > but I'd suggest to add a BGA generation option.
> 
> I've added BGA packages to the issue list as an enhancement.
> 

Thanks.

    Gabriel