From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-04-21T07:00:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing a Ruby Packaging Standard



On Apr 20, 1:12 pm, Suraj Kurapati <sun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've only ever used RubyGems for packaging my projects, so I'm kind of
> scared of setup.rb's style of separating my project's directories (i.e.
> lib/ is no longer next to bin/ and so on).  In particular, I am confused
> about the following:
>
> I want to run the man executable (pointing it to my project's man/
> directory) from my project's executable in bin/.  With RubyGems, I can
> rely on bin/ being next to man/.  But with setup.rb I don't know how to
> find my project's man/ directory from my project's executable in bin/!
>
> Any suggestions?

The standard approach would be something like:

  require 'rbconfig'
  dir = Config::CONFIG['datadir']
  file = File.join(dir, 'man/man1/ember.1')

B/c of RubyGems there is an extension method that redirects to the the
appropriate place.

  Config.datadir("ember")

But I think it might be a problem to tell which is which for locating
the man/ directory.

> Also, if I provide a man/ directory in my gem/tarball package like this:
>
> man/
> └── man1
>     ├── ember.1
>     └── ember.1.html

Can man handle .html? I glanced at the entries in my system and I
noticed they are all gzipped (ending in .gz).

> Will it be copied into /usr/share/man/ by RubyGems/setup.rb/Rip and
> friends?

Setup.rb does. RubyGems does not. Not sure about Rip.