Re: [PATCH] Gemspecs / Add ruby-ruby-engine.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> But how does this relate to snippets?  In other build systems snippets
> cause the source archive to be unpacked, modified, and then repacked.
> If we split unpacking and gemspec extraction we’d have to make sure that
> this also works when snippets are involved, i.e. snippets should see the
> extracted gemspec (as the original one is discarded by the build system
> anyway).

The implementation of snippets is in ‘patch-and-repack’ procedure; it is
completely independent of build systems and their phases.

> Agreed.  I’d be happy if someone else could chime in to give an opinion
> on whether to add a new phase or merge gemspec extraction with “unpack”.

I think I don’t understand the issue at hand sufficiently well.  Two
things come to mind: “extract” and “unpack” sound synonymous; OTOH,
having a separate phase provides more flexibility, since one can remove
it, replace it, etc.

Ludo’.