From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-06-13T22:53:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Modules and version determination

On 2002.06.13, Berger, Daniel <djberge@qwest.com> wrote:
> Kirk, it sounds like you've thought this out a bit.  Any chance of
> publishing something?  It sounds like a good idea.  Once you have something
> out there, it's a small step to write a script that generates some stub
> documentation and methods automatically when you want to create a new
> module, ala Perl's h2xs (ok, slightly different, but hopefully you get the
> point).
> 
> Anyone care to second my nomination? :-)

Another thing that is important to track is module dependencies.
Say, if I write a module Foo that depends on REXML, I should be
able to specify that in the module metadata as well.

Perhaps we can start gathering some requirements on the wiki
and once there's consensus, put together a simple implementation.
Then, if it's worthy, it'll take hold and people will use it.
Otherwise, it'll get abandoned and that'll tell us something
about it's necessity.

I personally would love to do:

  ruby -raa upgrade REXML-stable

and have it go out, check to see if there's a newer version of
REXML out, and install it for me.

-- Dossy

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