Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@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’.
