[Rake-devel] Tasks to aid installation?

[Mat Schaffer]

What's the goal here?  Being able to build Glark on windows?  You  
probably need cygwin.  If you're trying to build an installer for  
windows for other people, you might want to consider just a zip file  
of pre-compiled binaries or something like that.  Either way, I don't  
get the feeling rake is the magic bullet you're looking for.

Also any specific error messages, or feedback from the glark people  
might help.
-Mat

On Jun 20, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Hugh Sasse wrote:

> I've just tried to install glark on a Windows box and failed.  I've
> asked Jeff Pace about making this easier before, and I think I'll
> have to contribute something to make this happen.  The logical step,
> given that glark is ruby based and a Makefile already exists, is to
> provide a Rakefile that doesn't step on the toes of the Makefile.
>
> So, I'm looking for facilities in Rake that will allow me to pickup
> the platform and installation directories.  Yes, Rake is Ruby and I
> can do this in Ruby, but given the tools for creating packages
> already built into Rake I suspect I've missed something that already
> encapsulates this particular can of worms.
>
> I have looked around:
>
> http://rake.rubyforge.org/
>
> and the features mentioned include:
>
> "A library of prepackaged tasks to make building rakefiles easier."
>
> I can't actually find where these are defined..  Maybe this could
> have some links put in it?  I also can't see any Rake methods to  
> get at
> installation and configuration data, in the way that many of the File
> handling facilities are adopted by Rake itself.  Have I missed that  
> too?
>
>         Thank you,
>         Hugh
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