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

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