From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-09-21T12:14:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] - install.rb hack # 42

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:

> On Monday 20 September 2004 08:54 pm, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Tim Hunter wrote:
>>> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>>> i don't know who originally wrote install.rb or where i got it so thanks
>>>> to original author and here's the hack:
>>>
>>> I believe install.rb is now setup.rb:
>>> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/setup/
>>
>> to my knowledge setup.rb is distinct, and probably more fully featured,
>> than install.rb.
>>
>> in either case i've been using intall.rb and it doesn't solve the 'shebang'
>> problem - does setup.rb handle the shebang issue?  if so i'll probably
>> start using it - i use install.rb because i have been.  ;-)
>
> I use my own variation of install.rb, but have wanted to use setup.rb
> instead b/c it seems to be more robust and feature rich. BUT it clutters up
> the main directory more (e.g. 'setup.rb' plus 'config.save' and
> 'InstalledFiles'), and it also is not as simple to use, requiring three
> operations:
>
>  ruby setup.rb config
>  ruby setup.rb setup
>  ruby setup.rb install

exactly.

> Lastly, install.rb is small enough to easily be placed in a rakefile, which
> makes my life easir. Say you're currently in a test dir running a test, you
> can fix a bug and run 'rake install' w/o cd'ing up the main dir. (Sure
> there's many ways to deal with such things, but that's how I do it.)

i'll look into that - i've never used rake.  it seems very cool though.

> If setup.rb ever addressed these issues then I would switch, but until then
> install.rb works fine for my Ruby projects.

exactly again.

> I like your modification too, I will use it :)

it's been done the typical way - write - run once - seems to work - done!

in my office we call it the design-implement-test-production phase, it's how
nearly all of our important work gets done. ;-)


-a
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