That doesn't strike me as immediately intuitive. Also, I wouldn't
expect a singleton method on the Pathname class. There aren't any
currently that I recall.
How about ftools then? There we've got File instead of FileUtils.
Regards,
Dan
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From: nobu@ruby-lang.org [mailto:nobu@ruby-lang.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:22 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Dir.bitbucket?
Hi,
At Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:56:47 +0900,
Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:209874]:
> > > > Agreed. File would be a better location for the it.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Or even IO perhaps?
> >
> > IO isn't always associated with a certain path.
> >
> > I'd prefer File.null.
>
> That's fine with me. If we're going to keep it pure Ruby,
perhaps we
> could put this in FileUtils?
In pure Ruby, Pathname might be the best.
Hi,
At Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:59:22 +0900,
Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:209903]:
> > > > > Agreed. File would be a better location for the it.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Or even IO perhaps?
> > >
> > > IO isn't always associated with a certain path.
> > >
> > > I'd prefer File.null.
> >
> > That's fine with me. If we're going to keep it pure Ruby,
> perhaps we
> > could put this in FileUtils?
>
> In pure Ruby, Pathname might be the best.
That doesn't strike me as immediately intuitive. Also, I wouldn't
expect a singleton method on the Pathname class. There aren't any
currently that I recall.
Agreed.
How about ftools then? There we've got File instead of FileUtils.
ftools is obsolete.
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Nobu Nakada
nobu@ruby-lang.org wrote:
<snip>
uld put this in FileUtils?
In pure Ruby, Pathname might be the best.
That doesn't strike me as immediately intuitive. Also, I wouldn't
expect a singleton method on the Pathname class. There aren't any
currently that I recall.
Agreed.
How about ftools then? There we've got File instead of FileUtils.
ftools is obsolete.
Maybe it's best to keep it 3rd party then. I'm going to add File.null to the ptools package and put out the next release today or tomorrow.
http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/735/308/README.html
Thanks all, for the feedback.
Regards,
Dan