From: Caleb Clausen <caleb@...>
Date: 2009-08-14T01:25:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24915] Re: [Feature #1857] install *.h and *.inc

Roger Pack wrote:
>> If anyone can think of a better approach, please let me know. I don't want this to be something that I have to maintain with every Ruby release.
> 
> The kicker is that not every patch number makes it there--what if they
> are running trunk, or an odd patch number--you might need to have
> sensible fallbacks in these cases.  Though I suppose 99% of us will be
> using released patch numbers, and they'll probably stick around on the
> ftp site forever, so your original idea is probably sound :)

Maybe if you fail to find the exact same release on ftp, you can fall 
back to svn? That's no longer a pure ruby solution, but I think it's 
better to try svn and go ahead and fail if it's not installed, rather 
than fail outright if the file isn't in ftp.