[GRASS-dev] GRASS GEM and Ruby GEM name collision

[Maciej Sieczka]

Maris Nartiss wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just was browsing Gentoo bugzilla and found, that there is name
> collision between GRASS and Ruby Gems - both use "gem" as executable
> name. [1]
> 
> As GEM is not yet very popular, could we just rename GEM executable to
> i.e. "grassgem" or something more specific? Or any other ideas how to
> fix name collision, as just using different install path (--prefix) is
> not a solution.

Hi,

BTW, there is another issue - since gem is installed into the
PREFIX/bin, versions comming with eg. GRASS 6.2.1 and 6.3 are in
conflict. It used to be possible to have many GRASS versions installed
in parallel, without confilcts. Maybe to fix it, along with changing
the gem executable name, add a version suffix to it, and install only
the link in PREFIX/bin, keeping the executable in $GISBASE/bin?

I'd suggest the name to be gem_grass"suffix", eg. gem_grass63.

Maciek

P.S.
There are references to following missing pictures in the GEM manual:

/usr/lib/latex2html/icons/nx_grp_g.png
/usr/lib/latex2html/icons/up_g.png
/usr/lib/latex2html/icons/prev_g.png