From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T04:05:20+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems pre/post install

On Mar 25, 12:48 pm, "Austin Ziegler" <halosta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/25/07, ara.t.how...@noaa.gov <ara.t.how...@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Trans wrote:
> > > Does RubyGems support pre/post install scripting?
> > nope.
>
> And with, I think, very good reason. There are times when, in the
> past, I wished it did, but aside from one loophole, there's no way to
> get a gem to execute arbitrary code on installation.
>
> -austin
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Thanks Ara, Gregory and Austin. Guess, I'll just write gembundle as an
extension to Gems then.

T.