On Sep 22, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Chris Farmiloe wrote: > the deps & lib dirs: > Almost every ruby library, gem, or application has a lib > dir to contain the required files. This is a kind of standard > by consistantcy. Why does the "deps" dir exist?. A /plugins > dir would feel equally at home in lib/plugins and it would > solve the minor dilemor of "does my little extension count > as a "dependancy" or as a "lib"
"deps" is now (r671) "gems", and it exists because it is a Gem Home you can actually install gems into if you want to keep them close to the app. It functions exactly like the system gems path, but doesn't require root. So, the minor dilemma is solved: If it is packaged as a gem, install it to gems/, otherwise put it in lib/ _______________________________________________ Merb-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/merb-devel
