From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-01-17T06:38:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing a program Unix-like

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:48:11AM +0900, Sam Roberts wrote:
> Quoteing batsman.geo@yahoo.com, on Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:31:42AM +0900:
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:00:05AM +0900, Malte Milatz wrote:
> > > Users of Linux, FreeBSD etc. are used to downloading an archive,
> > > unpacking it, and typing some commands as the README file tolds. After
> > > that, they want to type the name of the program to launch it, and they
> > > want to type "man program" or "info program" to get help about it.
> > > 
> > > I don't want to be forced to imagine that every Ruby programmer writes
> > > his own script, in which he moves the appropriate files into
> > > /usr/local/bin, -share, -lib, -man etc.
> > >
> > > How do you handle this issue?
> > 
> > http://i.loveruby.net/en/setup.html
> 
> setup.rb installs documentation? It's documentation doesn't say anything
> about that!

AFAIK it doesn't cause there's no standard for where to put Ruby docs yet
(see the discussion in ruby-core from a couple weeks ago). Extending it
to handle docs should be trivial, though.

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