From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2011-06-16T05:33:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Plugin best practices

On Jun 15, 2011, at 5:33 AM, Intransition wrote:
> Yea, I was afraid you would say that ;-)
> 
> Technically speaking this is a bad idea. The reason is that if someone
> wanted to install a project in the traditional site ruby locations
> (e.g. via setup.rb),

(How many ruby packages have a setup.rb anymore, and who uses them?  Is it even 5% of rubyists? 1%?)

> then there is the potential for file name
> conflicts such that the last package installed will clobber the file
> from a previous package.

If everybody agreed to foo-bar.rb instead of foo/bar.rb that wouldn't solve the problem as they both share the same name.

Giving two implementations the same file name is a social problem, not a technical problem.  We can't solve this with a technical solution.