From: Jim Weirich <jim.weirich@...>
Date: 2007-12-22T01:31:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [Spam] Rake 0.8.0 added to Ruby


On Dec 21, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2007 10:24 AM, Gonzalo Garramu�o  
> <ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar> wrote:
>> Jim Weirich wrote:
>>> Just a heads up here.  I've added Rake (version 0.8.0 ... the  
>>> latest) to
>>> the Ruby SVN repository.
>>>
>>> Enjoy.
>>>
>>
>> Yuck.
>>
>> For what it is worth, I'll add my vote for unbundling rake as a  
>> gem and
>> removing it from SVN.
>>
>> Rake is not really a core library or utility that it should be  
>> added as
>> part of ruby core.
>>
>> Also, it has no compilable code in it, which makes it trivial to  
>> install
>> or update with gem install.
>
> The core-team asked for this back in early October.
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/12383
>
> Quite a bit of discussion ensued back then about whether this should
> be part of the library directly, or a pre-installed gem, in the end,
> as far as I can see by re-reading the thread this was left up to Jim,
> and it appears he took the first path.

I don't mind packaging rake as a preinstalled gem.  In fact, it makes  
better sense in my mind as well.

However, I don't see anything in the current source tree packaged in  
that manner (did I miss something?) and I was more concerned with  
getting rake ready for 1.9 than breaking new ground in how libs are  
packaged with Ruby.

Also, packaging it in this manner should not prevent updates via  
gems.  (Hmmm ... I just tried it and it seems there is an issue with  
how RubyGems orders libraries on the load path ... but that should be  
fixable).

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-- Jim Weirich
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