From: tom <tom@...2i.com>
Date: 2002-11-09T05:47:30+09:00
Subject: Re: CPAN Style installer

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002,  JamesBritt 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?
> 
> You can pull back specific RAA info using the RAA XML-RPC interface.  (And I
> have some almost-ready-for-release code that converts the returned data
> structure into RSS/RDF.)

Well the main feature that uses the whole list is the --showall option. I 
could avoid pulling back the list, unless that option was used. I would 
love to have more details about the XML-RPC interface, is that available 
anywhere.?

We probably don't need to download the whole file even if we want 
the whole thing everytime though, we can cache the file unless it is 
updated.

> > > BTW, many of the RAA entries do not have an actual download URL, but rather
> > > point to another HTML page where some user intervention is needed.  This was
> > > almost always the case for anything hosted on Sourceforge.
> >
> > I filter out all files without a tar.gz or tgz extension so this problem
> > is somewhat minimized.
> 
> Some packages are simple *.rb files, though.  Rimport, for example.

I can add support for them pretty easily, and will.

-Tom