From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2002-06-20T22:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: releasing system?

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> > Is there a Ruby Way to releasing?  For example, I've used Python's
> > distutils in the past.
> >
> > Or should I just build a .tar.gz that includes a README that tells the
> > user to "cd src; make && make install"?
>
> Sadly, there is no real standard for this yet (although I think we
> should shoot for a much higher standard than the distutils ;) There are
> some promising things in the works, like RubyGems and rpkg (and probably
> others I haven't kept up with) but certainly no standard has emerged yet.

For distribution, may I suggest looking at rubynet, this is the
project aiming at fulfilling the requirements of raa.succ (from last years
rubyconf and the interveneing discussion).  See rubynet.sourceforge.net
for more info.