From: Gabriel Horner Date: 2010-06-24T02:52:55+09:00 Subject: Re: print gem VERSION from ruby program Roger Pack wrote: > VERSION into your lib dir. Though, in reality, it's probably the tools > that should bundle the whole gem not just its lib dir...at least if they > want to be totally gem compatible. Disagree for two reasons. First, keeping VERSION out of lib/ breaks library namespacing conventions i.e. lib/name.rb and lib/name/. Versioning is part of library so why should it be different? Second, this goes against the emerging ruby packaging standard (RPS), http://chneukirchen.github.com/rps/. RPS clearly calls for all library code to reside in lib/. As a community, I think we should embrace this emerging spec seeing it is the only serious attempt at standardizing ruby packages. Gabriel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.