From: Zouplaz <user@...>
Date: 2008-11-10T23:47:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Require and symbolic links

le 09/11/2008 21:47, Stefan Lang nous a dit:

> 
> Personally, I wouldn't bother. There are a couple of install options
> that, depending on the situation, make much more sense and
> are less brittle:
> 
> 1) If you want to make install convenient for other Ruby developers,
> make a gem. (And if they don't like a gem they'll know how to unpack
> it and scatter the files all over their harddrives anyway they please.)
> 
> 2) If you want to distribute to Linux/Unix users in general, make
> a deb or RPM or whatever package.
> 
> 3) If you want to give the program to people who have little
> computer knowledge, try RubyScript2Exe
> (http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/). That packs
> everything into a single clickable executable.
> 

Thanks, I'll give File.readlink a look - You're right about using an 
adequate packaging solution, except that the final user is me ;-) This 
is for a program that I often upgrade and which is runned on 2 machines 
having different directory structures - I would like to avoid the 
tedious task of modifying the source after every upgrade