From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2011-11-13T07:52:41+09:00
Subject: Re: referring to version numbers in a gem

On Nov 12, 5:31 pm, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Keep the data where ever you want, Rubygems has tossed the FHS out the
> window so it doesn't really matter.
>
> The common way that has sprouted up, popularized by Bundler, is rather ass
> backwards from the developers point of view. So flip it:
>
>     module MyShit
>       VERSION = File.read(File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/../VERSION').strip
>     end
>
> Now that's a rather simplistic approach, I can show you much better, but it
> conveys the idea.

What do you think is backwards? You obviously don't think it's
backwards to have a constant of Whatever::VERSION. And you obviously
don't think it's backwards to have the version contained in a separate
file.

Why not make it actually simple instead of just simplistic?

  module MyShit
    VERSION = 'whatever you were trying to store in a separate file
for no obvious reason goes here'
  end

--
-yossef