[Alexandria-list] DevEnv setup

[Joseph Method]

You mean, the rake task doesn't install to /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/?
/usr/share/alexandria does get overwritten, though, but that's mainly
artwork and gconf stuff.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Ophidian <ophidian at ophidian.homeip.net> wrote:
> I was setting things up the other night to try and get a little more
>  serious about learning Ruby and doing some Alexandria development, when
>  I ran into a problem.
>
>  My primary desktop runs Fedora; this is where I have my library and
>  stable install of Alexandria.  It appears that the .rpm file installs
>  files to the exact same location as the Rakefile will.  How do others
>  avoid clobbering their stable install while testing?  I'm perfectly
>  willing to backup/clobber my ~/.alexandria directory while developing &
>  testing, but the entire dev install seems a little messy to cleanup.  Oh
>  how I long for the days of yore when a tarball in /usr/local was all
>  that was needed to install a program outside the package manager.
>
>  Aaron
>  --
>  "The goblins are in charge of maintenance?  Why not just set it on fire
>  now and call it a day?"
>  --Whip Tongue, Viashino Technician
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-J. Method