From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T20:44:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems as key? Re: The real Ruby vs. Python.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:44:00PM +0900, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> David Ross wrote:
> >You can create your own packages with RPA as well.
> 
> "Note that, although packaging stuff for RPA is very easy (we designed 
> rpa-base for ourselves too :), there's deliberately no documentation on 
> how to do it" (FAQ)

mmm the FAQ is outdated, since right now there is indeed some
(preliminary) documentation at

http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?Developer_Documentation/Introduction_To_Packaging_Using_Rpa_Base

Keep in mind that RPA is about packages, not about a port/package
manager: rpa-base is just something we needed to achieve our real goals,
because nothing else satisfied our requirements. That means that rpa-base
itself is not considered a "final product", so it must not be seen as a
competitor for RubyGems: we deliberately kept it away from that niche,
to focus on the end goals stated in our manifesto:

http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?RpaManifesto

I would thus recommend you the same I told to T. Onoma:

Release your software using using Aoki's setup.rb or RubyGems and
following the good practices documented in
 http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?GoodPractices

If you really want to use rpa-base (maybe you need atomicity or strong
dependency management?), take a look at the above link and feel free to
ask :)

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