[Kde-bindings] Re: how to distribute applications using korundum

[Stefano Crocco]

On Wednesday 22 September 2010, Ian Monroe wrote:
> |On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Melton, Ryan <rmelton at ball.com> wrote:
> |> Stefano,
> |> 
> |> You don't really need to write a plugin.  You can just pretend that your
> |> gem has a C extension that needs to be compiled and do whatever you
> |> need to do in extconf.rb.  (extconf.rb does need to create a Makefile
> |> with at least an :all and an :install target that can do nothing or
> |> could do the work that you need to do.)
> |> 
> |> Ryan
> |
> |There's some trickiness to doing what Stefano wants. Like if the gem
> |is being installed by root or just locally by a user, the .desktop
> |needs to be placed accordingly. So if he can manage a plugin that
> |would be generally usable by others, all the better I say. :)
> |
> |Ian

I tried to write a gem plugin as I described. You can find the result at 
http://github.com/stcrocco/outsider

Stefano