FWIW, FPM can turn pip and gem packages into debs, so if it's a really critical dependency, it might be possible to create the native package and then ask nicely to have it hosted on packages.ros.org.

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm


On 9 October 2014 12:50, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org> wrote:

Yes it does have gem support and can be used in a source workspace. But a package cannot be released with a non native package dependency.

Tully

On Oct 9, 2014 8:47 AM, "Jonathan Bohren" <jonathan.bohren@gmail.com> wrote:
Does rosdep currently have support for installing ruby packages via gem?

-j

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