Hugh, I suspect you understand the actual tone with which my comment was expressed (albeit a little hurriedly)... Of course it's good to make a request. But it's only a request. A request and a patch is better. Generally in the "open source" world it is necessary to be "the change you want to see". In other words if you really want to see something done do it yourself. Submit a patch, _and_ discuss/request. We are all busy people and I'm sure the principle maintainer, Jim, has his own things to think about.
As it happens Transfire was quick to supply a patch of sorts, but I'm not sure I like loading all files in a directory as rakefiles or running without an explicit rakefile. There is sake if you need it (http://errtheblog.com/posts/60-sake-bomb). And Transfire could always patch his own version (or even fork rake) if he really wants his functionality. On 26/02/2008, at 12:09 AM, Hugh Sasse wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Adam Salter wrote: > >> Ummm, a suggestion without a patch is pretty useless. > > Are you saying that discussing an idea with people who know the > project inside out, who could tell you whether another approach > would meet your needs (better, perhaps), who could save you writing > and debugging code, and who could save themselves having to read it > would be a waste of time? Are you saying that you should not > contribute ideas to one project if your commitments to contribute > code for other projects means you have no available time? > > Hugh > > _______________________________________________ > Rake-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
