Renald Buter wrote: > If Ruby wants to build something as comprehensive as CPAN with its RAA, > there should definitely be some kind of "standard practice". In perlworld, > CPAN.pm makes use of the fact every module is installed through > > perl Makefile.pl && make && make test && make install > > and in linuxland it is common to do > > ./configure && make && make install > In Ruby it's often either ruby extconf.rb && make && make install or ruby setup.rb config && ruby setup.rb setup && ruby setup.rb install Regards, Michael -- Michael Neumann merlin.zwo InfoDesign GmbH http://www.merlin-zwo.de