From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T01:16:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems is over engineered

On 10/5/05, nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote:
> At Sun, 2 Oct 2005 03:14:02 +0900,
> Austin Ziegler wrote in [ruby-talk:158553]:
>> On 10/1/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There has been a lot of talk on core about Gems and how it
>>> interrelates to various OS (file hierarchy) philosophies. Of
>>> significant issue is the "DATADIR problem".
>> This is a *Ruby* problem that's accentuated by RubyGems, but is not
>> caused by RubyGems. The integration of RubyGems into the Ruby core is
>> an opportunity here to solve this for Ruby.
> What do you consider needed for that purpose?

Something more robust than CONFIG['data'] that can also deal with
multiple packages data and multiple versions of those packages.

I'm still trying to figure out a sane API for this concept. As of right
now, I don't have one.

-austin
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