From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T21:59:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Install to bin dir?

On Saturday, August 28, 2004, 10:03:22 PM, T. wrote:

> Funny, two years ago the big names on the block were raainstall and rpkg.
> Remember those? Now we have RubyGems and RPA. Did we just long for capital
> letters in our packaging systems' titles, or have we really gained better
> systems? :) All kidding aside, has ruby-land improved?

Ruby-land has gained a very powerful standard library, thus boosting
the power of software that can be assumed to run on a person's system.
You may notice neither of the capital-letter package managers run on
Ruby 1.6.

Another factor, I imagine, is the increasing amount of software
entreating installation, and the consequent thirst for easier ways of
doing it.

Gavin