[#3006] mismatched quotation — "stevan apter" <apter@...>

ruby documentation uses a punctuation convention i've never seen

13 messages 2000/05/27

[ruby-talk:02750] Re: irb install

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-05-11 16:05:43 UTC
List: ruby-talk #2750
gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp (GOTO Kentaro) writes:

> Maybe, a kind of RAA-based automatically installer is better.  Now
> days, almost all PC Unix provide their own package managing systems to
> install various softwares.  I hope such mechanism would be included in
> Ruby for Ruby-related softwares and be platform-independent.  If such
> installer exists, Ruby softwares will be easy to install, furthermore,
> the software authors never bother about `How to install' section in
> README file.  What do you think?

One of the real strengths of Perl is

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

If we ruby-based installed with similar functionality, and made it a
prerequisite for software in the RAA, the whole community would
benefit.


Dave

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