From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-11-09T05:33:13+09:00
Subject: Re: CPAN Style installer

 JamesBritt (james@jamesbritt.com) wrote:
> BTW, the entire RAA XML file is around 14K lines.  Maybe I missed it in your
> original post, but why do you want to read the entire thing, and how often would
> you want to do it?

I just sent a patch to Tom which will use Apache's ETag header to detect
any changes and cache the XML file once it's been pulled.  This
significantly aleviates the amount of data raa-install is pulling down
the line.

> Some packages are simple *.rb files, though.  Rimport, for example.

I wonder.  Is it fair to simply install these directly in
$prefix/lib/ruby/site_ruby/$version? (aka Config::CONFIG['sitelibdir']) 

_why