From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2003-04-09T03:34:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

From: "Eric Schwartz" <emschwar@pobox.com>
>
> "Bill Kelly" <billk@cts.com> writes:
> > So many Ruby modules are platform-independent... It just seems
> > whacky to me from an authoring standpoint to be wanting to
> > release the latest version of my module, but telling people, well,
> > you'll have to wait until somebody "ports" my platform-independent
> > module to your specific OS's package manager before you have a
> > convenient way to install it.
> 
> AIUI, the point is to have an intermediate layer that takes care of
> all the platform-specificness for you, precisely so you don't have
> that problem.  You just release your package with support for this
> layer, and then it takes care of any platform-specific weirdnesses
> (building .debs, .rpms, .whateverwindowsuses, etc.)

Ah.  OK, thanks.... In that case, I propose that the first
translation to be implemented ought to be one to massage this
intermediate layer metadata into whatever format the platform-
independent Ruby installer needs.  (Ha ha only serious... :)


Regards,

Bill