Re: [tlug] Alternatives to sed + awk

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 3 March 2011 14:14, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:

> I personally like pear, but it isn't as widely used as CPAN or ruby
> gems. So some software is instead distributed as a tgz (or svn/git
> checkout). Or as RPM/deb (which is easier for the administrators of the
> cheap web hosting I imagine?)

One cool thing about CPAN is that it can be used to build native
packages quite easily, e.g.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/g-cpan.xml
http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man1/cpan2deb.1p.html

I wonder if Ruby Gems has been thusly wrapped?

https://github.com/thwarted/gem2deb
http://rubyforge.org/projects/gem2rpm/

Looks like someone once wrote gem2ebuild, but there are no traces of it now:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/209833

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Cheers,
Josh