From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-04-16T23:44:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

* Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> [0442 13:42]:
> On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 11:24:23 PM, Rasputin wrote:
> 
> > gsinclair@soyabean.com.au wrote in comp.lang.ruby:
> 
> >> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 12:00:20 AM, Brian wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I'm not sure I like the idea of Ruby keeping a separate
> >>> installed-packages-repository database. It could work, but then there would
> >>> be three different types of packages that could be installed:
> >> 
> >>>   - packages using the O/S package management system (e.g. RPMs or FreeBSD
> >>>     ports)
> >>>   - packages using this language-specific package management system
> >>>   - packages which didn't support either and were installed manually
> >> 
> >> The OS package management system will never serve all needs, so if
> >> "having some installed this way and some installed that way" is your
> >> concern, then it will never be the solution.
> 
> > Google for BSDPAN sometime - a year or so back the FreeBSD crowd found a way to
> > integrate their ports system with CPAN. MIght be a good starting point?
> 
> There's sometimes an undercurrent of "but we've got to do our own
> thing" (i.e. not use CPAN).  I like the idea of hooking into CPAN in
> some way.  The great thing about Ruby is that once you've got all the
> ideas in place, it's easy to implement things, so improvement is very
> possible.

Well, I am halfway through the second Pickaxe chapter, so a lot of this is over my head at 
the minute :)
Don't get me wrong, I was really just talking about how it's possible to integrate a
platform-specific package system with an external one, rather than a general Ruby package
management system (I don't even know what a Ruby package looks like yet) - it's not like
I have shares in CPAN or anything :)

Plus of course FreeBSD has a very liberal license, so if you do see anything you
can use, you can help yourself as long as you thank them..

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