This gem is called RBT, which is an abbreviation for "Ruby Build Tools". Essentially, this project is a collection of different ruby scripts/classes that may aid in the process of compiling or installing programs from source, but also allow installation from binary, from a remote or from a loca...

This project is called easycompile. It allows you to compile a given source archive, such as a file like "php-7.2.0.tar.xz". By default this will compile into the prefix /usr/. In order for this to work, the file at hand has to exist; in the case above, the file php-7.2.0.tar.xz has to exist lo...

This gem is called repackage. It allows the user to repackage a given archive, such as from foobar-1.0.tar.gz towards foobar-1.0.tar.xz format. If the target archive (the input that is given to the main class of this gem) can not be found then the current behaviour is to first try a glob-opera...

WARNING: THIS IS INCOMPLETE AS OF YET. DO NOT YET DOWNLOAD!!! This library is called universal_pipe_handler. It allows the user to construct pipes (if these are registered - otherwise we can not use them). How does this look like? A pipe is something like: cat test.txt | nl This will c...