[Rubygems-developers] Getting ready for release 0.9.0

[Chad Fowler]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Jim Weirich wrote:

> Sorry this has taken so long.
>

Hey, you're keeping the torch burning!  Don't apologize!

> I pondered long and hard over the datadir issue and finally decide to
> take a minimalist approach verify similar to Maruicio's first  
> suggestion
> in http://tinyurl.com/b7yo9.  I am suggesting that people use
> Config.datadir(package_name) to locate their data directory.  In the
> absence of RubyGems, this will just resolve to
> File.join(Config::CONFIG['datadir'], package_name).  If RubyGems is
> present, it will locate the 'data' directory in the corresponding
> versioned gem area.
>

>
>    module Config
>      unless Config.respond_to?(:datadir)
>
>        # Return the path to the data directory associated with the  
> given
>        # package name.  Normally this is just
>        # "#{Config::CONFIG['datadir']}/#{package_name}", but may be
>        # modified by packages like RubyGems to handle versioned data
>        # directories.
>        def Config.datadir(package_name)
>          File.join(CONFIG['datadir'], package_name)
>        end
>
>      end
>    end
>
> Notice that is carefully checks for an existing datadir method, so  
> if it
> does become available natively in Ruby, this file will degrade  
> gracefully.
>
> Thoughts?
>

Seems good to me.  If everyone had RubyGems, we could have them  
install a gem for this :)

Great stuff, Jim!

Chad