[Kde-bindings] how to distribute applications using korundum

[Robert Riemann]

Maybe you want to learn from this example using cmake to install a kde/qt-ruby
app.

http://github.com/pcapriotti/kaya

Best regards,
Robert

On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:01:56 Stefano Crocco wrote:
> Hello to everyone
> I'm finishing the first alpha version of my application using korundum.
> Now, the problem I'm facing is the following: how do I distribute it?
> 
> My first idea was to create a gem for it. I like this solution because:
> a) it's familiar to ruby users (my application is for ruby developers)
> b) it automatically installs other gems my application depends on.
> Unfortunately, as far as I know, using rubygems has a serious drawback,
> that is you can't install .desktop files or icon files in the correct
> directory (like /usr/share, for example). I'm trying to find out whether
> there's some trick to force rubygems to install files outside the gems
> directory, but even if I found out a way, I'm not sure I'd feel
> comfortable to use it.
> 
> Another other possibility coming to my mind is to distribute it as a
> tarball and use CMake to build and install it. This has drawbacks, too:
> a) it's more complicated to use than rubygems (unpack the tarball, create
> the build directory, run cmake, run make, run make install, against the
> semplicity of `gem install`)
> b) it forces the user to manually install dependncies.
> 
> A third option could be to distribute the application as a gem, installing
> the .desktop file under the gems directory and tell the user to change the
> KDEDIRS environment variable to contain the installation directory. I
> don't like this too much because it's more work for the user, who should
> change the environment variable every time he installs a new version of
> the application, as the installation directory used by rubygems contains
> the version number.
> 
> Does anyone has any suggestion or advice on this matter? I've already asked
> on the ruby mailing list, but I received no answer so far.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Stefano
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