From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2006-09-01T06:59:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby program installed via RPM

On 8/31/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > RubyGems is not authorized for use.
>
> And ... what's the reasoning for this? I'm genuinely curious.

Our company has rather strict policies on software.  One of the
hazards of being a government contractor, I suppose.

> In answer to your question, I would  follow the guidelines of setup.rb
> and use setup.rb itself (see PDF::Writer for how setup.rb can be
> extended to include non-Ruby files like your .glade files). Then I'd
> wrap that in your RPM and cause "ruby setup.rb install" to be called
> by the install script inside of the RPM.
>
> However the hell you do that. ;)

Thanks, I'll look into that.