[Rubygems-developers] Why does an install command an update

[Jim Freeze]

* Hugh Sasse <hgs at dmu.ac.uk> [2005-06-03 17:21:09 +0100]:

> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Jim Weirich wrote:
> 
> >Another option to reduce bandwidth is to toss the file lists in each of
> >the downloaded gem specs. [s/\n//; # hgs]
> 
> You mean the bits like
> 
>     files:
>       - lib/cgikit
>       - lib/cgikit.rb
>       - lib/cgikit/components
>       - lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage
>       - lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.ckd
>       - lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.html
>       - lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.rb
> 
> There must be a way to express this more concisely.  Dir doesn't
> YAML::dump in such a way as to pass the name and the entries, but
> that can be changed by yaml_properties or something, can't it?.
> Not sure about backwards compatibility.....

FWIW, I coded up this little snippet:

  -----------
  files = {"files" =>
    %w(
    lib/cgikit
    lib/cgikit.rb
    lib/cgikit/components
    lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage
    lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.ckd
    lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.html
    lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.rb
    )
  }

  require 'yaml'

  puts files.to_yaml
  puts files.to_yaml.size

  def optimize_file_list(files)
    hash = Hash.new { |h,k| h[k] = [] }
    files.each { |file|
      dir      = File.dirname(file)
      filename = File.basename(file)
      hash[dir] << filename
    }
    hash
  end

  files["files"] = optimize_file_list(files["files"])
  puts files.to_yaml
  puts files.to_yaml.size
  ----------

Running this gives:

  % ruby ftest.rb
  --- 
  files: 
    - lib/cgikit
    - lib/cgikit.rb
    - lib/cgikit/components
    - lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage
    - lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.ckd
    - lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.html
    - lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage/CKErrorPage.rb
  271
  --- 
  files: 
    lib/cgikit/components/CKErrorPage: 
      - CKErrorPage.ckd
      - CKErrorPage.html
      - CKErrorPage.rb
    lib/cgikit/components: 
      - CKErrorPage
    lib/cgikit: 
      - components
    lib: 
      - cgikit
      - cgikit.rb
  229

A slight savings of 15%.
Not as much as I would have expected.

-- 
Jim Freeze
Theory and practice are the same, in theory. -- Ryan Davis