Re: [etch-users] Etch 3.12 released

[Jason H. <jh...@ap...>]

Forgot to mention there is also a gem rake target, so "rake gem" will get you a ruby gem that you can install.  I'll work on getting that into the official gems repo as well.

And a generic "rake install" that will just install etch directly.  That one will need to be run with sudo of course.

Jason

On Nov 14, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Jason Heiss wrote:

> Minor release along the lines of making it easier to get etch installed.
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> The Makefile in the client directory for building client packages (rpm, deb, etc.) has been deprecated in favor of a Rakefile (rake is a make-like utility written in Ruby, rakefiles are Ruby code).  This makes it easier to support various packaging formats.  If you have rake installed (gem install rake if not) then whatever you did with make before is easily done with rake now.  E.g. make redhat is now rake redhat.  Run rake -T to get a list of available tasks.
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> And I've used that flexibility to make a port for MacPorts.  Running 'rake macport' produces a Portfile suitable for MacPorts.  It has been submitted for inclusion in the official MacPorts tree.  Hopefully soon installing etch on a Mac will be as simple as "port install etch".  I'll send out an email when I get feedback on the MacPorts submission.
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> Jason
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