On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Thomas Hafner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> what's the meanding of the different subdirectories which ar part of
> $: resp. $LOAD_PATH?
>
> I suppose a subdirectory "1.8" is for ruby-1.8-modules only, the
> "x86_64-linux" directory is special for that architecture a.s.o., but
> what is a difference between "lib/site_ruby" and "lib/ruby"? Where
> should I put my self written modules?
>
> Regards
>  Thomas
>

i think the difference is suppose be between built-in and add-on libraries
installed via the

   ruby install.rb

or

   ruby extconf.rb && make && sudo make install

methodology.

then gems does it's own thing.  sigh...

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