From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-06-14T23:09:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Modules and version determination

On 2002.06.14, Massimiliano Mirra <list@chromatic-harp.com> wrote:
> > 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

So, if module authors would just distribute them as rpkg/rapt
packages, life would be good?  :-)

This is great news.  Are there reasons why all modules shouldn't
go this route?

-- Dossy

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