Chad Fowler
10/11/2004 3:08:00 AM
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:59:16 +0900, Mauricio Fernández
<batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> As I said above, the process was relatively easy because Gavin followed
> many of the good practices documented in rpa-base's wiki.
So by that you mean to use obvious directory names, don't do anything
fancy with test suites, and use rdoc for documentation. Is that it?
Pretty much exactly what it says in the gems chapter of the Pickaxe,
it turns out ;)
> This doesn't
> mean that the conversion was automatic (or could be automated for the
> matter), though. There were dependencies on RubyGems I had to remove,
> and the documentation was generated with a custom script so I had to
> adapt it; I also had to discover the "build dependencies" (I found them
> in the documentation later) and fix some issues...
<snip/>
> Moreover, it lacks information about the "build dependencies" (required
> to generate the documentation).
What do you mean by "build dependencies" in this context?
> I'd like to remind you once again that the conversion involves much
> more than a simple change in the package format. In general, systems
> with a package manager have some associated policies, which determine
> the quality of packages in that context --- besides being just "legal"
> as far as the format it concerned.
Obviously. But if you could run a script and have everything setup
for an inspection/sign-off, I imagine it would make things easier. I
guess it's really not worth the effort.
By "remove rubygems dependencies" are you saying you had to remove
"require 'rubygems'" and a few "require_gem" statements or was it
something somehow more involved?
Chad