[gentoo-user] Why we no Heroku?

[Daniel Quinn]

I wanted to start fiddling with Heroku <https://heroku.com/>, so
naturally the first thing I tried was

|$ eix heroku |

…but alas there was nothing. So I poked around their site to see how one
might install their client manually and the instructions
<https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python#set-up>
are the typically horrifying:

|# wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install.sh | sh |

The thing is, a quick look at what that || sh| is actually doing isn’t
all that terrifying. Basically it untars a bunch of ruby scripts into a
directory and then puts the path to the |heroku| “binary” (a ruby
script) in your $PATH. Surely, this is a good candidate for an ebuild, yes?

So I thought I’d ask: am I missing something, or is this really as easy
as it looks? Is this just waiting for someone to write an ebuild?
Bugzilla has nothing
<https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=heroku> about it, but I
can’t believe that Heroku use hasn’t come up before in Gentoo land.
Surely there must be some web developers / ops people who would like to
use Heroku stuff from Gentoo…. right?

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