Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
now.
T.
Hi,
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In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
now.
I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
Any opinion?
matz.
I'm a firm believer on maintaining stability and allowing code to run
the same in tomorrow's release as it did in yesterday's (simply: 1.8.5
should not function different from 1.8.4 or any prior/future versions
of that stable branch).
With that being said, if any major changes are going to be made, just
stick it in 1.9, yay 
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On 6/16/06, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
Hi,
In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" > on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
>Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
>relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
>now.I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
Any opinion?matz.
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Matt
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
>Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
>relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
>now.I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
Any opinion?
The change both simplifies code related to it and makes Ruby more
robust for having it. While it is "big" in a sense, I'd be pretty
surprised if any other projects besides mine and RubyGems would be
"adversely" affected. That being the case, maybe it's worth moving up
in the time-line. 2.0 still seems to be a ways off.
In any case, I can work around it if neccessary.
Thanks,
T.
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In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" > on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
Such a change would be likely to affect RubyGems and applications/libraries
using it, and in particular Rails, which does funny things with $:.
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:42:18AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" > on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
>Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
>relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
>now.I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
Any opinion?
--
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I would welcome it, for one. Right now you have to expand_path everything manually and
in Rails it becomes very difficult to follow all the ../../../ properly.
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On 16-jun-2006, at 4:42, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" > on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
>Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
>relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
>now.I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
Any opinion?
--
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please send all personal mail to
me at julik.nl
Hi,
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In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:10:52 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
Any opinion?The change both simplifies code related to it and makes Ruby more
robust for having it. While it is "big" in a sense, I'd be pretty
surprised if any other projects besides mine and RubyGems would be
"adversely" affected. That being the case, maybe it's worth moving up
in the time-line. 2.0 still seems to be a ways off.
Compatibility goes beyond anyone's expectation. I have just got
a report that this exact issue broke someone's code last week.
matz.
That sounds more like a Rails bug, it should be expanding paths for you.
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On Jun 16, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov wrote:
On 16-jun-2006, at 4:42, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
In message "Re: Absolute paths in $"" >> on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:17:19 +0900, transfire@gmail.com writes:
>Any chance Ruby 1.8.5 will have absolute paths in $" instead of
>relative ones? I know that's planned for 2.0 but I sure could use it
>now.I'm afraid it's too big change for 1.8 which is under stable mode.
Any opinion?I would welcome it, for one. Right now you have to expand_path everything manually and in Rails it becomes very difficult to follow all the ../../../ properly.
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