From: rubikitch@...
Date: 2005-12-11T00:53:24+09:00
Subject: [ANN] rctool-1.1.1

Hi,

== Abstract
RCtool is a small tool which makes/updates rcfiles automatically.

There is a rcfile in software each.
For example, it is .zshrc in zsh, .emacs in Emacs and so on.

Please think about the scene which introduces a new EmacsLisp program into Emacs.
You copy a .el file in the directory which is in load-path.
You have to write setting in .emacs last.

I think that update of .emacs is easy if you introduce it once.
However, please imagine a scene upgrading an EmacsLisp program.
When the EmacsLisp code is largely modified, and setting did not have compatibility either, a user must modify .emacs by hand one by one.
Changing .emacs by hand is boring and error-prone; changing .emacs automatically without any notification is extremely rude.

RCtool takes over this troublesome work.
RCtool does the following work separately.

* RCtool makes the rcfiles based in contents of "the definition script", and modified one part of rcfiles in a backup directory.
* RCtool shows the difference between the original and the modified if you need it.
* RCtool overwrites with rcfiles last.

A user understands which part changed clearly.

A developer modifies the definition script and can offer appropriate rcfiles to a user.


It is available at 
http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/computer/rctool/index.en.html


== What's new

=== [2005/12/11] 1.1.1 released
`set_filenames' bugfix on Windows.

=== [2005/11/15] 1.1.0 released
New methodology to incorporate RCtool.

=== Download / Untar
Please execute the following commands.

  ruby -ropen-uri -e 'URI("http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/archive/rctool-1.1.1.tar.gz").read.display' > rctool-1.1.1.tar.gz
  tar xzvf rctool-1.1.1.tar.gz


When you failed, please download it from the next link.

* ((<rctool-1.1.1.tar.gz|URL:http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/archive/rctool-1.1.1.tar.gz>))


=== Installation
Execute setup.rb to install RCtool.
  ruby setup.rb  

=== How to Incorporate RCtool
Since version 1.1.0, RCtool uses new methodology to incorporate into your system.

It is assumed the following situation.
* There is a definition script called `foo-rctool.rb'.
* `bin/' is a directory to put executables.

mkrctool generates an integrated script.

  mkrctool foo-rctool.rb > bin/foo-rctool

Of course if you modify `foo-rctool.rb', you must update `bin/foo-rctool'.
Make or ((<Rake|URL:http://rake.rubyforge.org/>)) takes over such a cumbersome task.


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rubikitch
http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/index.en.html