From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-09T23:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:11:44PM +0900, Paul Duncan wrote:
> * Brian Candler (B.Candler@pobox.com) wrote:
> [snipped]
> > At least they have a consistent interface for manual installation:
> >    perl Makefile.PL
> >    make
> >    sudo make install
> 
> You mean like this?
> 
> ruby extconf.rb
> make
> sudo make install

Some packages do this. Others do
  ruby install.rb config   (or is it 'configure'?)
  ruby install.rb setup
  sudo ruby install.rb install

B.