From: Tom Clarke <tom@...2i.com>
Date: 2002-12-09T10:59:46+09:00
Subject: [ANN] RAAInstall 0.0.5

Just a short announcment. RAAInstall has been updated to work with the
new wonderful RAA. The new naming convention for package names has
streamlined things wonderfully.

Relating to previous comments, raa-install no longer pulls directly
from the RAA. Instead it runs off a compacted XML file hosted on the
raa site on sourceforge, updated periodically from the RAA. This
improves the download from 500k down to a little over 20k.

Many packages still don't work, but many do. Basically, requirements
for packages to be installed are:
    * They are packaged as tar.gz
    * They use one of install.rb/extconf.rb/configure for installation

RAAInstall can be downloaded from:
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/narf-lib/raa-install-0.0.5.tgz

Or installed using itself by doing
   raa-install -i raainstall

Enjoy,

-Tom