From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-06-14T10:48:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Modules and version determination

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:53:16PM +0900, Dossy wrote:
> 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.

You can already do the latter with rpkg/rapt:

    rapt install rdoc

It is checked if a newer version is available and it is installed
according to the user configuration (e.g. all the docs here, all the
tests there, all the binaries here...).  You can remove packages,
search them, query for description, version, maintainer address,
etc. as well.

Versioning information is supported, dependence handling not yet.
Also, there are only a dozen packages online.  The entire process of
packaging takes about 10 minutes and is explained in the tutorial,
uploads are welcome.

The whole thing is downloadable from
http://www.allruby.com/rpkg/rpkg-0.3.3.tar.gz, documentation is
English and Japanese (courtesy dellin).

Massimiliano