From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-04-08T23:55:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 12:37:07 AM, Hal wrote:

> Actually (to reply to myself -- sorry) I'm not sure
> it works at all on Windows. The few packages I've 
> tried today give me this error:

>   C:/RUBY173/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7/raainstall/tar.rb:72:
>   in `read': unexpected end  of file (Zlib::GzipFile::Error)

> (There's more, of course.)

> Anyone used raa-install on Windows?


I have, albeit under Cygwin.  Do you have the latest raa-install?
Early versions had no chance on Windows :)

It depends on zlib, too, I think (pretty obvious from above output)
but you might want to make sure you've got the latest version of that,
too.

There could be a predictable reason why the zlib stuff would fail on
Windows, but it escapes me.

Gavin