From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-04-08T23:26:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure


> 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).

I just remembered why I never got deeply into this.
I still use Win98 -- flames to /dev/null please, or
to NUL: on Windows. :)

raa-install does not work well on Windows without
tweaking. There are minor issues with the filename
not being 8.3, etc.

I haven't tried it on my Linux box, but
I will soon.

Hal