Re: [PATCH] Add yaggo.

[Thompson, David]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 24/06/15 22:19, Thompson, David wrote:
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>> Perhaps ruby should
>> be a propagated input for packages with ruby executables, or scripts
>> could be wrapped in another script that set the correct environment
>> variables.
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> A naive question - I don't believe that this is required for e.g. python
> packages that have executables and the somewhat analogous PYTHONPATH. Why is
> Ruby different?

The Python build system creates wrappers around all executables that
sets the proper PYTHONPATH.  I'm not a big fan of this approach, but
something similar will probably need to be done for Ruby if we can't
find a better way.

- Dave