With all due respect if you don't provide instructions and tell punters (who may not know anything about ruby and are interested in buildr, not ruby) that they are on their own, a huge chunk of them just won't bother. Then you'll have only rubyists as users but maybe that is what you want?
You need to provide at least one tried-and-true way to install the thing. >________________________________ >From: Antoine Toulme <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Cc: Olivier Lefevre <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2011 7:51 AM >Subject: Re: Can't install because of dependency issues > > >OK, I'll do that. > > >In my humble opinion, we need to stop providing installation instructions at >all. We have too much to do to catch up with all the niceties of rubygems, >bundler or rvm to be complete and think of all the corner cases. > > >Also, on rubyforge you can grab a zip of buildr + jruby that is a >one-stop-shop to use buildr :) > > >Antoine >
