From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T10:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:36:03 +0900
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: ruby-dev summary: 22688-22826"
>     on 04/02/12, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
> 
> |> Matz disagree to make the require method load libraries
> |> with relative path, but he allowed other method to do it.
> |> Some details are not determined yet:
> |> 
> |>   * name
> |>   * handling of symbolic link
> |>
> |> In addition, Tanaka made an advice to record the full path
> |> in $:. Matz agreed and promised to implement it when
> |> he has a time to do.
> |
> |For the record, I really like both of these ideas; they would completely
> |eliminate the use I have for requirelocal/loadlocal in RubyTreasures.
> 
> Any name suggestion?


* link

  as in ld.  i say this because it would be used primarily with
  packages/libraires trying to 'link' to dependancies...

  the sematics of link would be

    - first try relative
    - then try $:

  a notion of version could be added if that could ever be agreed upon, eg

    link 'foobar-1.0.0'

  mighit load foobar-2.1.1 if it were available (using libtool style
  versioning => interface.age.impl)

* relative 

  a keyword/method to transform a path into a relative one

  def this path
    require 'pathname'
    File.join(Pathname.new(File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__))).realpath, path)
  end

  require relative 'sub-package'

* include

  effectively 'require relative'

-a
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