On Jan 22, 2007, at 08:59, Jeremy Stell-Smith wrote: > 3) it prompts the user for where to put place it's build directory > on it's first install and subsequent updates. > > 1 & 2 make sense, but 3 kind of sucks. a user could care less > where this stuff lives, and even if they do, they want to specify > it once, not on every install, what if they don't remember where it > lives? > > I guess this is a problem others have faced and solved. What's the > conventional wisdom about where to put these types of things?
Provide a command line option, a dotfile to specify it in and a good default. (This question is much more appropriate for ruby-talk.) -- Eric Hodel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blog.segment7.net I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE! _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
