From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-08T11:15:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Find



On Oct 7, 3:17 pm, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists <t...@sourcepole.ch>
wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Daniel Berger wrote:
>
> > On Oct 7, 6:41 am, Bertram Scharpf <li...@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> the Ruby built-in Find module lacks a lot of features the
> >> GNU find tools has. I wrote a new one (~170 lines).
>
> >>   <http://www.bertram-scharpf.de/tmp/find.rb>
>
> >> Maybe somebody likes it.
>
> > I wrote file-find not long ago:
>
> >http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/file-find/
>
> Time to merge stuff into Ruby proper if so many (...) people see the need
> to improve the aparently meager features of the built-in find?
> *t

My experience on ruby-core tells me that the odds of getting the
radical changes we would want into the stdlib are about nil unless
there's a general outcry.

Regards,

Dan