From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-04-08T21:54:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 4:49:58 AM, Mauricio wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:29:06AM +0900, Sean Russell wrote:
>> This is all very Ruby-oriented.  The *best* thing, for users, is that
>> they install Ruby modules the same way they install any other
>> software.  apt-get, emerge, rpm -Uvh, whatever. 

> agree wholeheartly

> in my system, *nothing* would be better than being able to do 
>  apt-get install module
> and having that take care of the dependencies.


This sort of topic comes up every now and then, and generates some
excitement, then dies down.  Raa-install is very impressive already;
people should use that and send feedback to this list and to the
raa-install list (very quiet at the moment - it needs some developer
interest as well).

Not all RAA packages are amenable to raa-install; that is known.
What's not known is what we can do about it.  All the suggestions in
the world are not going to progress the state of the art until we have
a common frame of reference.  That is: use raa-install, report on
packages that fail to comply, try to "fix" those specific cases,
generalise the solution, and voila - massive improvement.

Dreams are fine, but the reality is that a solution is underway, and
by keeping it on the agenda while making steady progress, the wishes
will be fulfilled.

Cheers,
Gavin