On Wed, December 8, 2010 11:31, Ernie Miller wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Kevin Skoglund wrote:
>> In a related tangent, I also wonder whether the lower-profile of
>> plugins has caused vendor/* to lose its usefulness.  Could
>> everything
>> in vendor/ move to lib/?  It might just require some tweaks the
>> autoloaded paths.  lib/ could become the single directory for
>> storing
>> all non-application, non-Bundler, libraries of code.
>
> I find vendor to be a nice conventional place for various files that
> our applications depend on, which should be version controlled
> alongside our ruby code. The contents of vendor may not even be ruby
> -- it might contain supporting software that's used in an
> integration, for instance.
>
> Put another way, vendor is the place for third-party (vendor)
> support files.
>


I agree. ./lib is mine, ./vendor is 'theirs'.

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