From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-13T23:03:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpkg 0.3

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:33:37PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > 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?

M-x doctor <RET>

Could you please elaborate on that?

Do you mean something like a single executable that downloads and
install the .rpk of rpkg itself?  I like that.


So far I made the main package almost needless of external
dependencies by placing the utility stuff in its lib directory.

I did this with tar.rb (which Thomas Hurst wrote for this purpose),
ar.rb (which I wrote for this purpose) and stringio.rb (which I wrote
earlier and just needed now).  The URI package is a tad too large to
do the same.  Maybe I should just do some in-house parsing of the
source URI and shed that dependency.

Massimiliano