From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-03-13T23:24:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rpkg 0.3

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 09:16, Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:48:03PM +0900, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Errr... sorry if this is a stupid question, but how does this relate
> to rpkg-lite?

I think the point was that CPAN can make use of a number of different
software to do a task - thus, if rpkg did that, then even if one of
those software packages weren't on the system, it would still work.  It
would increase the chances of rpkg being usable without having to
download dependencies.

I would think, however, that just distributing a tarball/zip file of the
necessary Ruby extensions with rpkg would be nicer.  It would make rpkg
a lot simpler and smaller, and less error-prone.

> 
> Massimiliano