[DRE-maint] Packaging setup.rb?

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello,

On Nov 8, 2007 6:06 PM, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at gwolf.org> wrote:
> I just uploaded to the repository libgruff-ruby - Yes, directly to
> packages/ instead of to packages-wip/ as it is ready for upload
> (barring that ftp-master is down, of course :-/ ). Now, this module
> ships only with a Rakefile, which depends on hoe, which depends on
> rubyforge... And it is used only for building, so I won't embark on
> packaging them :)
>
> So I just copied over setup.rb from another module, and it worked.
>
> But... How would you feel about reducing this diff by having setup.rb
> as part of ruby-pkg-tools, and just linking it over at build time.

  I like the idea. However, there might be compatibility problems.
Apparently, the author doesn't care about backward compatibility:

http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/doc/devel.html (at the bottom).

  But that's worth a try anyway !

  Regards,

      Vincent