From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-12-13T06:08:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] replace setup.rb/install.rb with builtin module

On Thursday 12 December 2002 01:56 pm, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> I think it is pretty clear that any packaging system would be made
> more convenient to use when bundled with the standard ruby
> distribution.

> There are a number of Ruby packaging systems being developed and
> hopefully one will eventually "win."  When/if that happens I'd be
> happy if it were made part of Ruby's standard distribution.  Until
> then it seems premature.  E.g. whatever comes standard with Ruby
> should probably work seamlessly with RAA.succ, but that isn't done
> itself.

actually i'm not clear about all the package systems in devleopment. the first 
i can recall is rpkg, kind of an dpkg for ruby, whihc seemed really cool at 
the time. then i heard of ipkg, but i don't know what that one is about. then 
i heard of raa-install which seemed amazing to me. with raa-install, all a 
package needs is an install.rb script, tar.gz'd and put on the raa and its 
ready for install. this install-pkg library complements that nicely. sounds 
like a winning combination.

do i have this right?

-transami