bundling clients in distributions

[Erik Hatcher]

I'd like to get the other clients bundled with Solr's next official  
distribution.  The itch, of course, is the solr-ruby library and  
Flare, though Python should definitely come along for the ride too,  
and solrj is already being prepackaged.

Python is the easy one, it's just a single file to include.  solr- 
ruby should be distributed as a .gem file, which is some kind of  
bundle of the lib directory (like a .jar).  Ideally the solr-ruby  
unit tests would be run too.  This would require the release manager  
have Ruby and/or JRuby installed, along with Rake and Rails (to be  
able to run the Flare unit tests).

I'll work up a patch.   I'm mailing here to get initial thoughts on  
this from the community too.  I would like to get the solr-ruby  
library and Flare versioned the same as Solr itself too, whereas I  
started solr-ruby at 0.1 and the last Rubyforge release is 0.5.

Comments?

        Erik