JavaGems: gemcutter for the JVM

I'm glad someone else is coming with a solution other than maven. Maven is one complicated beast.

I don't get it. The FAQ implies they aren't using jar files, so are they providing a custom classloader instead? If they inherited multiple-version support from rubygems, how do they know which version I want visible?

See also buildr, which attempts to be a drop-in Maven replacement using a ruby DSL built on top of rake. <a href="http://buildr.apache.org/" rel="nofollow">http://buildr.apache.org/</a>

And this is why having the main Ruby gem repository completely open source rocks :)

why is it in Ruby?<p>As opposed to, say, Clojure or Scala ?