From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-06-05T17:59:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Package, a future replacement for setup.rb and mkmf.rb

dave <dave.m@email.it> writes:

>> I started to wonder if Ruby's install
>> scripts are state of the art, what could be done better and how.
>
> clap, clap.
> this is wonderfull: we need it.
>
>
>> Basically, you create a file, setup.py
>
> I can suggest you to look at scons (http://www.scons.org)
>
>
> A great thing would be to replace: 
>   - configure make and make install

Please note that Package aims to specifically help Ruby developers
installing *Ruby* libraries and extensions.  Package is not trying to
be a general purpose tool for other languages, especially not autoconf
or automake.

> This approach will led you to a great success, imo.

How about you write the autotools in Ruby and have your own great
success? :-)

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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org