Package with Traveling Ruby

[FooBarWidget]

Not all of your users are Ruby programmers, and those who are not Ruby programmers may have trouble installing Octodown. Maybe you can package Octodown with Traveling Ruby to solve this problem.

[ianks]

@FooBarWidget Wow this looks very promising. I was actually researching ways to do this and could not come up with a solution I liked. Glad you brought this to my attention.

My main goal is releasing on Homebrew and other package managers. Have you had success doing that before with Traveling Ruby?

[FooBarWidget]

It hasn't been done before but it should be relatively easy. With Traveling Ruby, your baseline would be to create binary tarballs for Linux and OS X. Once you have these, you can:

1. Write a Homebrew recipe that simply downloads & extracts the OS X Octodown binary tarball and creates bin wrapper scripts.
2. Create RPMs and DEBs that contain the contents of the Linux binary tarball (maybe in /opt/octodown), plus some wrapper scripts in /usr/bin. This approach would not comply to the Linux distributions' packaging guidelines at all, so you wouldn't be able to get them included into Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/RHEL, but it would make your RPM/DEB packaging efforts literally 10 times easier. You no longer have to create different RPMs/DEBs for each distro: you just create a generic RPM/DEB that works on all Red Hat-based distros and all Debian-based distros.

[andrewhavens]

👍 I like this idea!

[ianks]

Should have this PR within the next day or two. Then it is onto the Homebrew package, which I hope they approve of.

[ianks]

PR is here: #38

[ches]

I think this could be closed since #38 is merged? 😁

[ianks]

Yes @ches you are right. Thanks for the heads up.