From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-08-25T10:31:20+09:00
Subject: Re: gem unpack --target usage

Erik Hollensbe wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
>> BTW, why do you use the extra '--' in your example? (Not that it helps
>> me either way.)
> 
> The -- indicates that no more arguments are coming; I suspect it's a bug 
> (feature?) in rubygems's argument parser that it wants it this way.

Well, that would explain why, when I run unpack using those dahss it 
ignore the subsequent --target option.

I'm thinking now that if you are unpacking foo.gem then, by default, it 
will go into foo/  (which is the same as having no --target option, and 
which is what you get using the '--' as you have).

If you run

   gem unpack foo.gem -- --target bar

I think you'd still get a foo/ directory, not  bar/



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