From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T00:16:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Extensions v0.6.0

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:12:29PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the release of v0.6.0 of Ruby/Extensions
> ('extensions').
[...] 
>   (RPA support usually lags only 1 day.)

Not always: in some cases the packaging task is pretty involved and can
take longer (when there are complex dependencies, lots of glitches in
the upstream release to be fixed, etc). In this case it was easy, and we
have to thank you for following (maybe unknowingly) most of the practices
explained at
http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?GoodPractices

Also, http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?GoodAPIDesign might
interest you.

> Or grab the tarball.

I noticed that the permissions in the tarball seem wrong (too many files
are 755), maybe that can be addressed in the next release.


Port: extensions
Classification: Top.Library.Development
Available-Version: 0.6.0-1
RPA-Version: 0.0
Updated: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:52:53 +0100
Source-URL: http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/ports/extensions_0.6.0-1.rps
Description:
  Extensions to the Ruby standard classes.
  .
  This project contains several extensions to the Ruby standard classes.  Many
  are sourced from the Ruby Wiki.
  .
  Criteria for inclusion of a method are:
  - the method serves a general purpose
  - it is reasonably clear from the method name what its behaviour is
  - it would not generally be out of place in the language itself
  .
  Apart from convenience, the benefit of this package is to provide a
  reference.
  You can use this package for your convenience, and deploy your code with a
  clear dependency on it, since anyone can download it.  That is better than
  releasing your package with a few ad hoc standard class modifications, and
  hoping that they don't conflict with any code your users have written.
  .
  Long story short: it's useful that Ruby allows you to add methods to existing
  classes, even built-ins like String and Array.  Some people rightfully are
  uneasy about actually doing so, because of possible conflicts.  This project
  offers a standard set of extensions in order to mitigate that uneasiness by
  making them publicly available, and well documented.


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