From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T21:39:32+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby developers: help push RPKG development and usage forward!! (it is like CPAN.pm, only Ruby)

Actually, it would be nice to have them online, but not necessarily
human browsable.  If we could have rpkg establish a context for the
libraries available (kind of like mkmf does)...maybe using Ruby/DL in
1.7.x instead of compilers, then we could enable using this context to
download appropriate binary builds.

So, if one could describe the .dll/.so files that were needed by having
a block of code that tries to load the .so/.dll files (using Ruby/DL)
and then do some library specific thing to check versions, then report
this back this *should* be able to be done.

Thoughts?

-Rich Kilmer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ts [mailto:decoux@moulon.inra.fr] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 5:48 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Cc: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Ruby developers: help push RPKG development and 
> usage forward!! (it is like CPAN.pm, only Ruby)
> 
> 
> >>>>> "M" == M S <itsnewsforme@yahoo.ca> writes:
> 
> M>   My question is: how come very few developers release 
> their software 
> M> in RPKG format?
> 
>  Just to give you an example, bdb is tested against these 
> libraries of  Berkeley DB
> 
> pigeon% ls -d db[2-4]*
> db2.4.14/  db3.0.55/  db3.1.17/  db3.2.9/   db4.0.14/
> db2.7.7/   db3.1.14/  db3.1.5/   db3.3.11/  db4.1.16/
> pigeon% 
> 
>  You really want that I put a binary version for *all* these 
> versions of  Berkeley DB and this for linux, *bsd, solaris, 
> windows, ... ?
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
>