Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gabriel Filion <gabs...@lelutin.ca>
* Package name : ruby-equatable Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Author : Piotr Murach <pmur...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/piotrmurach/equatable * License : expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Ruby module that adds explicit indications of whether objects can be compared in equality checks Equatable extends Ruby objects with equality comparison and inspection methods. By including this module, a class indicates that its instances have explicit general contracts for `hash`, `==` and `eql?` methods. Specifically eql? contract requires that it implements an equivalence relation. By default each instance of the class is equal only to itself. This is a right behaviour when you have distinct objects. However, it is the responsibility of any class to clearly define their equality. Failure to do so may prevent instances to behave as expected when for instance Array#uniq is invoked or when they are used as Hash keys. This package is a requirement of ruby-pastel, which if we move further up the requirements tree, is needed in order to be able to package puppet-development-kit. I plan to maintain this package with the ruby team. I will ask for sponsorship from within this team so that I'm sure that my package will respect the team's policies.