Hi-- On Apr 7, 2:08 am, "Saurabh Nanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) Rename the package from 'libxml-ruby' to 'libxml'. > > Why would you want to do that? Isn't having the -ruby suffix a good thing?
I can understand why one would think so. But it's not necessary because it is a "Ruby World" library. Ruby libs are installed into ruby-specific location(s), so no naming issues arise. Package maintainers for various distributions will add a "ruby" as needed according to their own practices (eg. Debian). We do not need to do so ourselves. Simple case in point, just consider all the other Ruby packages out there, they do not suffix their package names with "- ruby" either. On the "why we should" front... For Ruby projects, the general/good practice is to name the package, the site location and the toplevel namespace all the same thing. I believe in this practice, and that it should only be deviated from under special circumstance. Currently all three differ for us: libxml-ruby.gem require 'libxml' XML:: The "proper" names would be: libxml.gem require 'libxml' LibXML:: And I would like to see us follow this practice. T. _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
