From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-08-23T04:08:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Package requests for the prelim. Ruby Production Archive

As mentioned in other emails. Windows is a target
platform for it to work on. RPA-base might be a
development release, but it works very well. 

Batsman: Work work work :)




--- Aredridel <aredridel@nbtsc.org> wrote:

> > A recent blog entry at
> >
>
http://www.thekode.net/blog/Tech/Ruby/rpa-packages.html
> > says,
> > 
> > "I have invited the people from ruby-talk to
> request packages for the 
> > Ruby Production Archive. So far the response has
> been a bit 
> > disappointing; seemingly no Rubyist wants to use
> software packaged with 
> > some care, or maybe it�s just that the 114
> packages currently available 
> > cover all needs?"
> 
> It's damn good! A fair bit ahead of where I am.
> Everything I currently
> use is in there, my own ruby-xattr aside.
> 
> > I'm sure Mauricio meant no disrespect, but this
> seems to imply that 
> > packages currently available from RubyForge and
> elsewhere are *not* 
> > packaged with some care.  No doubt some of these
> *are* fairly 
> > half-assed, but there may be many other reasons
> why people prefer not to 
> > use rpa; poor Windows support being a real
> possibility.
> 
> I can testify as to the varying quality of the
> author's packaging. I've
> been working really hard on building RPM specs for
> Ruby packages for the
> PLD distro, and it's tough, slow going.  Some things
> (notably using a
> modern setup.rb from Minero Aoki) are very easy.
> Others I've had to
> fight with a lot, trying to get them to comply with
> the Linux Filesystem
> Heirarchy Standard and other requirements. It's not
> easy.
> 
> I'm looking forward to trying rpa-base soon -- I
> haven't had the time (I
> spent four hours trying to figure out why Ruby
> wouldn't compile on Sparc
> or Alpha processors, only to find it was the
> Oniguruma preview failing
> on some architectures)
> 
> For RPA, I can see windows support being important.
> I imagine that
> limits its usage by about half.
> 
> Ari
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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