In article <200212121428.46026.transami / transami.net>,
Tom Sawyer  <transami / transami.net> wrote:
>On Thursday 12 December 2002 01:56 pm, Matt Armstrong wrote:
>> I think it is pretty clear that any packaging system would be made
>> more convenient to use when bundled with the standard ruby
>> distribution.
>
>> There are a number of Ruby packaging systems being developed and
>> hopefully one will eventually "win."  When/if that happens I'd be
>> happy if it were made part of Ruby's standard distribution.  Until
>> then it seems premature.  E.g. whatever comes standard with Ruby
>> should probably work seamlessly with RAA.succ, but that isn't done
>> itself.
>
>actually i'm not clear about all the package systems in devleopment. the first 
>i can recall is rpkg, kind of an dpkg for ruby, whihc seemed really cool at 
>the time. then i heard of ipkg, but i don't know what that one is about. then 
>i heard of raa-install which seemed amazing to me. with raa-install, all a 
>package needs is an install.rb script, tar.gz'd and put on the raa and its 
>ready for install. this install-pkg library complements that nicely. sounds 
>like a winning combination.
>
>do i have this right?
>

Seems that way to me ;-)  But as I said in another post, I think we can 
make InstallPkg so that the packaging system is pluggable.

Phil
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