From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-02-28T08:34:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11721] Re: "Programming Ruby" as Debian package

Oliver M.Bolzer <oliver@fakeroot.net> wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>In hope that this news post is relayed to the mailing list, i would like to
>announce that the online edition of "Programming Ruby" has been packaged as
>a Debian[1] packge and is hitting more than 100 Debian mirrors world-wide
>as I am wriging this. Users of Debian GNU/Linux can now easyliy install
>this great book and I hope this will further help spread the word about
>Ruby and encourage users to give Ruby a try.
>
>Users of the unstable (sid ) tree only need to issue the command
>          "apt-get install rubybook"
>and voila, the book will be in /usr/share/doc/rubybook as html plus it will
>be integrated in dwww or dhelp if you have one of them installed.
>Users of Debian 2.2 (potato/stable) and all earlier versions can download
>the .deb[2] and install it directly using "dpkg -i" without any problem, as
>it does not depend on anything else.
[...]

This reminds me of something interesting.

Ruby has a module mkmf that is used to make it easy
to create standard makefiles.  Now a standard
application on the RAA has various information about
how it is to be installed, and you can (with whatever
tools) make, make test, and make install.

Wouldn't it be nice to have some hook that can be
added so that if mkmf was properly configured you can
finish with make deb or make rpm and instead of
installing, package up the application in that format?

Cheers,
Ben
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