Re: Ruby load path and vendor_ruby
On 08/01/10 at 11:17 -0700, Joshua Timberman wrote:
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> Hello!
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> In the process of getting more Ruby libraries packaged for Debian, I
> spoke with Yehuda Katz last night about a library he wrote. He had
> mentioned something about the Debian library locations that is
> "incorrect" for library code that isn't Ruby's stdlib: all the
> Debian ruby libraries put the code directly in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8
> (for example), and it should go in /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8, so
> a developer can choose whether to use that, or use their own
> vendored (in their application) version.
>
> I know it would probably be considerable effort to repackage all the
> lib*-ruby code in Debian, but it might be the right thing to do for
> long term interoperability between the Ruby and Debian communities.
Hi,
The move of ruby libraries to vendor_ruby has been discussed in the
past, and is on the list of things that are likely to be changed when/if
we have a big transition to change many things in ruby packaging (inc. a
simpler way to package 1.8 and 1.9.X libraries together).
That's not going to happen before squeeze, though.
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