An alternative to Gems

Ara.T.Howard schrieb:

Basically, we need core language support for versioning.

agreed.

Which is, as far as I understood, more or less what Tom proposed. A quote from the original post:

I believe it would be better if Ruby itself simply elaborated on its
#require method (and #load method of course) to handle versioned
directory tiers.

Thank you both, Austin and Ara, for the additional infos and the code samples.

Regards,
Pit

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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Austin Ziegler wrote:

Bil Kleb wrote:

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> Nor does IMHO for basically the same reason.

For whatever reason, I don't view IMHO as inflammatory as STFU, YMMV.
:slight_smile:

Yeah, I was just being a bit silly (and you seem to have picked up on
that ;-).

> Seriously, when is an opinion humble?

Sometimes, I think "honest" instead of "humble", sorry for the
confusion.

No problem, but I guess that's a good reason for not using
abbreviations. Anyway, I'll take an honest opinion over a humble one
any day.

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;-D

        nikolai

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Except that Trans has taken an irrational dislike to the way that
RubyGems does this and has proposed something that is even *less*
usable and is conceptually bankrupt. Frankly, I tire of the
nonsensical whimsical proposals that have no application in the real
world. I want him to put up this time, because every other critic of
RubyGems so far has failed to do so in any way that solves the twin
problems.

I still maintain that packaging and versioning belong together.

-austin

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On 11/20/05, Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> wrote:

Ara.T.Howard schrieb:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> Basically, we need core language support for versioning.
> agreed.
Which is, as far as I understood, more or less what Tom proposed. A
quote from the original post:

> I believe it would be better if Ruby itself simply elaborated on its
> #require method (and #load method of course) to handle versioned
> directory tiers.
Thank you both, Austin and Ara, for the additional infos and the code
samples.

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