On 4/10/06, Jim Weirich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip proposal]
Jim, I think I can live with this *if* RubyGems starts using its
tarcapabilities a little smarter than it currently does and allows me tospecify
some of this in the gemspec.
If you look at the tarring that I do in the PDF::Writer Rakefile(actually, all
of my rakefiles now), I *dynamically* determine theappropriate directory and
set things appropriately in my .tar.gz files.What I want here is to have my
images/ and data/ directories where theybelong in my SCM tree but dynamically
name them to data/gem-1.3/images/and data/gem-1.3/data/ in the .gem file. Maybe:
spec.datadirs = %w(images data) spec.version_datadir = true
Alternatively, allow me to provide a proc -- similar to what you see inmy
PDF::Writer Rakefile -- that will do all sorts of renaming from theperspective
of the gem directory on down. I would actually prefer both;this way I could
version some data without versioning other data.Alternatively:
spec.datadirs = %w(images) spec.versioned_datadirs = %w(data)
To make this work without this sort of transparent transformation, I'dhave to
copy my files to a staging directory, move the directoriesaround, and then gem
package. I would no longer be able to cleanly buildall of my packages from a
single source and my Rakefile would double insize pretty quickly.
I think that having spec.datadirs and spec.versioned_datadirs makes itpretty
easy to deal with from all perspectives.
-austin--Austin Ziegler * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Alternate: [EMAIL
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