[gentoo-dev] New ruby-single eclass

[Hans de Graaff]

Hi,

The current ruby eclasses work fairly well for ruby-only packages, but
support for packages where ruby is only part of the package are not well
served. As a start the ruby team proposes the following new eclass,
ruby-single.eclass. The purpose of this eclass is to provide support for
the case where a working ruby version needs to be accessed
via /usr/bin/ruby. Examples of such packages are net-libs/webkit-gtk and
sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools.

The eclass is loosely modeled after the python-single eclass-r1,
although not all the functionality available there can be or has been
provided for ruby at the moment. We've tried to keep variable and method
names compatible, though.

Also contained in this email is a new ruby-utils eclass which contains
code factored out of the current ruby-ng eclass, so that it can used by
both eclasses. ruby-utils.eclass is not meant to be used in ebuilds.

Full example code including an ebuild (app-admin/pwstore) is available
in the "ruby" repository.

Thanks,

Hans