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defunkt / rip

Take back your $LOAD_PATH. Deprecated and unmaintained.
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rip-package-directory, a local package which doesn't need updating #120

Closed cldwalker closed 14 years ago

cldwalker commented 14 years ago

I created a package which packages up a directory but never has to be updated since it's actually a symlink to the given directory: http://github.com/cldwalker/rip/tree/directory

My motivation for this is to use current versions of certain local libraries without having to constantly update their rip package counterparts. I achieve this by symlinking ~/.rip/.packages/:name to the given directory. The only downside to this approach is that the given directory ends up having a metadata.rip. This new package type installs and uninstalls cleanly. Like file packages, these packages have no versioning.

Some examples:

Can install relative paths

 $ rip install .
 installed boson ()
 # Can install full paths
 $ rip install /path/to/project
 installed project ()

Is there interest for bringing this into rip? If so, I'll add tests.

josh commented 14 years ago

I don't think this behavior belongs. Instead of rip install /path/to/project, export RUBYLIB=/path/to/project/lib:$RUBYLIB

rip packages should be immutable.