Bug #16266: Additional empty folders created in lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems by make install

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
• Tags: notbug, lib

[MSP-Greg (Greg L)]

See https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2580

Duplicating a comment there:

Somewhere between the following two commits, make install adds additional empty folders that are created in lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems, most are default gems.

2019-08-23 9ffb0548bf good
2019-08-23 3b55394b07 bad

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

Looking at the commit, the addition of the empty folders appears to be intentional, to result in the same behavior as gem install --default. Can you explain what problems this causes?

[MSP-Greg (Greg L)]

Sorry, but code that creates thirty empty folders is just wrong, regardless of whether it creates 'problems'...

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Assigned
• Assignee set to hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)

MSP-Greg (Greg L) wrote:

Sorry, but code that creates thirty empty folders is just wrong, regardless of whether it creates 'problems'...

I disagree that a change that creates thirty empty folders is wrong a priori. This change appears to be deliberate in order to ensure consistency. Assigning to @hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) to decide whether this should be closed.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2580 is already closed.