From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T16:08:44+09:00
Subject: Re: CPAN Style installer

Tom Clarke (tom@u2i.com) wrote:
> I had a number of conversations at RubyConf (you know who you are :-)) on 
> the subject of a CPAN style installer for ruby. Being someone who is 
> happier with code than talk, I decided to code something up.
> 
> Here it is:
> http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/narf-lib/raa-install-0.0.2.tgz

This is a swell, little tool, Tom.  I played with it a bit tonight and it
worked great.  This is exactly the sort of tool that could become pervasive.

Now all we need are mirrors.  I spoke to Brian Ingerson today on the phone.
(He's working with CPAN admins to incorporate Ruby, Python, etc.)  We've
been analyzing the CPAN structure to determine where the RAA can fit.  This
weekend we'll be working on the scripts to build the structure, the indices
from RAA.

I imagine Ingy will jump on the list tomorrow or Saturday and run through
his findings concerning CPAN and Ruby. 

_why