From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T11:40:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

On 2003.01.23, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> wrote:
> 
> 3) RAA is hard to browse.  I think that a setup of the style of
> www.search.cpan.org is best.

I've been thinking (okay, dreaming) of a small snippet of Ruby code that
could turn the interactive Ruby shell (irb) into a RAA browser, much
like CPAN.pm for Perl.  I imagined:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'raa'
true

irb(main):002:0> raa.install 'Foo::Bar'
...fetches the Foo::Bar module from RAA...
...installs it using setup.rb or whatever...

irb(main):002:0> raa.updates
...displays a list of currently installed modules, their versions, and
the latest version available according to RAA...

You get the idea.  Is this attractive to anyone?  Hasn't this been
/done/ already?

Using irb seems right to me -- leverage readline support if irb has it,
etc.

-- Dossy

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