From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2002-03-13T20:48:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpkg 0.3

Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

> james@rubyxml.com writes:
>
>
>> Then I found that rapt requires Lapidary.
>
> That should probably change to be testunit (which is in the Windows
> kit), as testunit supercedes Lapidary.
>
>> Is there a Ruby script that will scan code and tell me what's required,
>> what I have, and what I need to get?  (If not, that'll be Yet Another Thing
>> To Do for me ...)
>
> I wonder if rpkg could have an rpgk-lite which it can use to bootstrap
> itself onto a machine?

If you look at CPAN.pm under perl you'll see that it has about five
different methods for downloading modules; lynx, wget, ncftpget,
LWP.pm...

The idea is that at least *one* of those is usually available.

-- 
Piers

   "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
    possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
         -- Jane Austen?