From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-06-14T09:21:13+09:00
Subject: Re: RaaInstallInRuby petition


On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:

> [snip]

> Well, it's a chicken-and-egg problem.  We need a package manager 
> available
> in the standard distro in order for people to start using package
> management and in order to reduce the numer of variables in the 
> problems
> space.
>
> Phil

chicken-egg, egg-chicken ... I see your point. Ruby and package 
management should probably start making some concrete progress beyond 
discussions given that (1) there is an application, (2) directory 
structure and package contents have been discussed and (3) there are 
several workable approaches to installation (at least as to Ruby 
programs and extensions).

Regards,

Mark

P.S. One pet peeve for some developers of excellent programs as to 
package documentation. I get irritated when I open README.txt and get a 
one line document telling me that the real readme document is somewhere 
else. It makes me feel stupid for looking at the directory and deciding 
to _read_ the document titled README.

P.P.S. I also don't like documentation that is in html only. I like to 
'less' through documentation.