From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T08:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby module distribution

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:08:11AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:58:21AM +0900, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> 
> > I'm a little overwhelmed in my life right now, so I won't have time to 
> > implement this for quite a while.  Also, I don't really know the RPM 
> > format or the RAA very well, so it would also be a major learning 
> > experience.
> 
> But most OS's don't have Linux.  What would you do about Mac OS X, FreeBSD 
> and Solaris?
> 
> We could try to design something that works similar to RPM, but it'd have 
> to be Ruby-specific.

If we make the next APT in Ruby we'll be essentially creating a
Linux-like distribution centered on Ruby instead of Linux.

Don't know if we really want that.

One possibility would be creating any system of our own and then letting
vendors modify it for each OS so that it is the "official" installation
means on each platform. For instance by having some kind of 
"installation specialization" framework that could be suited to each
platform.

I mean, RAA.succ, raainstall, rpkg, etc, are no good at the end of the
day if they don't play well with the packaging system of my Debian (the
argument applies to Gentoo, RH, FreeBSD, Windows or any OS we want to
run Ruby on) Each dist./OS has its policies, and we should respect them.

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