From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-11-02T15:04:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] urirequire: I got yer Web 2.0 right here

Daniel Sheppard wrote:

>>	if expected_digest
>>	   raise "Wrong Hash - Expected '#{expected_digest}', recieved
>>    
>>
>'#{digest}'"
>
>what sort of drugs am I on? Seemingly not the good ones.
>
>if expected_digest
>	raise "Wrong Hash - Expected '#{expected_digest}', received
>'#{digest}'" unless digest == expected_digest
>
>
>I actually think this has the potential of being a damn useful library.
>Once you put in the hashing, I don't see why this is any more dangerous
>than a gem. The only problem is that you'd need to modify your code to
>upgrade to a newer version of a library, but there's not too much wrong
>with that. If you're hashing the code, it's not allowed to be modified,
>so you can keep a local cache of files and only download once.
>
>Or, if you're just doing it with somewhere you can trust, you can just
>use it within your own scripts and let them download the latest version
>from a constantly-changing source. 
>  
>
If you could adapt it so that it'll accept svn:// (or https I suppose), 
then you could even use it to keep libraries updated from a svn repo - 
which would be rather nice